On 07/25/2012 04:33 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
On 07/25/2012 12:54 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 07/18/2012 09:58 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 02:54:10PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>> Steve,
>>>
>>> Just a heads up that all the patches are now in Fedora 18 and shortly
>>> there will be a mass rebuild of the entire distro as part of F-18 to
>>> have the distro completely rebuilt against the linker changes (amongst
>>> other things that the mass rebuild is being done for).
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> Thanks for the heads-up, much appreciated.
>
> We do seem to be picking up the new path correctly. However, FYI an
> upgrade from F17 to F18 (which we don't really support yet) failed on my
> TrimSlice due to the legacy linker path not existing as a symlink. The
> program that is executed as a postinstall action for gcc does create
> this, so something went awry. Let's keep an eye on that. It's probably
> just that I did at the wrong moment :)
Of course, I mean glibc not gcc. It's that time of day :)
I've mailed Jeff with a summary and reproducer description. I think the
best thing to do is to just have that compat symlink be a real symlink,
not something that's made in the post install logic.
Jon.