How to rebuild glibc?

Question

Hey,
I read on http://www.archlinux.org/news/minimum-r … creased-1/ that for kernels older than that we need to rebuild glibc for them,
the VPS i have has 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2 but im unsure how to go about rebuilding it is there any guides or anything about that?

Answer 1

a *very* quick guide
you can change the details to suit your environment
# = run as root
$ = run as regular user
# pacman -S abs
# abs
$ mkdir -p ~/abs/core/glibc
$ cp -R /var/abs/core/glibc ~/abs/core/glibc
$ cd ~/abs/core/glibc
$ vi PKGBUILD
modify the --enable-kernel line so it reads 2.6.18
$ makepkg
# pacman -U <your new glibc package>.xv
You might also want to add glibc to the ignorepkg line in pacman.conf.  That way, you'll just be notified when a new version is out and you can repeat all of this.  You don't need to resync the entire abs tree though, the following command will do it for one package
# abs core/glibc
One other tip - make sure you have a copy of the regular glibc package before making any changes just to be safe
Last edited by oliver (2011-03-02 21:17:24)