bug#21216: glibc and linux-libre-headers

bug#21216: glibc and linux-libre-headers

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hello,

I installed GuixSD recently and ran into the same problem as there:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-02/msg00032.html

Installing linux-libre-headers manually did help, but shouldn't it
happen automatically?

With kind regards,
   Danny

bug#21216: glibc and linux-libre-headers

[Ludovic Courtès]

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> I installed GuixSD recently and ran into the same problem as there:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-02/msg00032.html
>
> Installing linux-libre-headers manually did help, but shouldn't it
> happen automatically?

Nowadays, unlike in Feb. 2013, linux-libre-headers is a “propagated
input” of glibc: when glibc is installed in a profile,
linux-libre-headers is automatically installed as well.  So there
shouldn’t be any problems.

However, instead of installing the ‘glibc’ package, you may want to
install the ‘gcc-toolchain’ package, which provides all the tools needed
to do software development (GCC, libc, Binutils, the ‘ld wrapper’, etc.)

Can you report back?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

bug#21216: glibc and linux-libre-headers

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:23:40 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> However, instead of installing the ‘glibc’ package, you may want to
> install the ‘gcc-toolchain’ package, which provides all the tools needed
> to do software development (GCC, libc, Binutils, the ‘ld wrapper’, etc.)

I tried that now - that works fine. 

Why can I install glibc (when it doesn't work anyway)? What's the difference?
Is it documented?

Thanks.

Regards,
   Danny

bug#21216: glibc and linux-libre-headers

[Ludovic Courtès]

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:23:40 +0200
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>
>> However, instead of installing the ‘glibc’ package, you may want to
>> install the ‘gcc-toolchain’ package, which provides all the tools needed
>> to do software development (GCC, libc, Binutils, the ‘ld wrapper’, etc.)
>
> I tried that now - that works fine. 
>
> Why can I install glibc (when it doesn't work anyway)? What's the difference?

The most important difference is the linker wrapper (“ld-wrapper”),
which makes sure -Wl,-rpath is passed for each library against which we
link.

> Is it documented?

Not yet, but you can help!  :-)

Ludo’.