[CentOS] Glibc sources?

[Kahlil Hodgson]

Hi Andy,

mock is part of EPEL and is almost certainly what you want to use.


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On 11 March 2015 at 09:47, ANDY KENNEDY <ANDY.KENNEDY at adtran.com> wrote:

> > Okay, thanks.  I really don't need _EXACT_ match, but close.  Again, my
> > aim is to equip GlibC with some logging facilities IF anyone is using the
> > gethostbyname().  Given the help from this list, I was able to rebuild
> > GlibC for CentOS and am testing my stuff now.
> >
> > I appreciate your help on this matter.  Not knowing where the knobs are
> was
> > the hardest part.  I have just about completed my testing.
> >
> > Again, thanks for the help!
> >
> > Andy
>
> Ughh!!  I just realized that the app that I'm testing has parts that are
> linked against 32-Bit
> libraries.  I have to test that as well.  Ouch!
>
> This leads to the question:
>
> How do I tell rpmbuild to build the i686 version of the library in place
> of the x86_64?  I've
> done some looking around on the web and I have found something about:
>
> setarch i686 mock -r <something> ... rebuild <my.rpm>
>
> Not being able to find the "mock" package for CentOS, I thought maybe:
>
> setarch i686 rpmbuild -ba glibc.spec
>
> would work.  This ended with an error:
>
> enable-bind-now --with-tls --with-__thread --build i686-redhat-linux
> --host i686-redhat-linux --enable-multi-arch --enable-systemtap
> --disable-profile --enable-experimental-malloc --enable-nss-crypt
> checking build system type... i686-redhat-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... i686-redhat-linux-gnu
> checking for i686-redhat-linux-gcc... gcc
> checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in
> `/home/akennedy/rpmbuild/BUILD/glibc-2.12-2-gc4ccff1/build-i686-linuxnptl':
> configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
> See `config.log' for more details.
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.2d2i9G (%build)
>
> I have also looked through the glibc.spec file for something that would
> make me think that
> I could change the target variant.
>
> "rpmbuild --target=i686 -ba glibc.spec" gives the same output as the
> setarch i686 above.
>
> Again, any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
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