Hi David, On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:01 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Devs, I should point out that most devs are not subscribed to this ML. > There is either a bug in Arch's packaging of glibc/rpcgen or it is upstream. > rpcgen was removed from glibc a while back and then was put back in when > libtirpc wasn't ready for use. Given this failure, after much investigation, it > was discovered that the rpcgen in glibc on arch searches for cpp in: > > (1) /lib/cpp > (2) /usr/ccs/lib/cp (really...?) > > Neither of which are present on Arch any longer leading to the tdebase build > failure. To fix the problem all I did was create a symlink in the archroot for > /lib/cpp->/usr/bin/cpp. Now tdebase builds just fine. > > I know the /lib/cpp link disappeared somewhere between June 4, 2012 and July > 8, 2012 because tdebase was building fine on 6/4 and then failed beginning > around 7/8. > > With all the changes to glibc 2.16 I don't know if this missing link is an > arch packaging issue or upstream. Regardless, it is a problem that affects > packages relying on rpcgen. I don't know this package too well, but a priori it sounds like a bug. If it has not yet been filed, I suggest opening a report at bugs.archlinux.org, that way someone will look into it. Cheers, Tom
