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HuskyDog
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 10:57 pm    Post subject: Alpha: glibc - python disaster Reply with quote

I did an 'emerge -u world' on my Alpha. It downgraded glibc. Now, python complains that the wrong version is installed, thus,

Code:
python: /lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.3.2' not found (required by python)

# qpkg -I -v glibc
sys-libs/glibc-2.3.1-r4 *


No working python, so no working portage, so no way to rebuild python - check-mate!!!

HELP!
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 4:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm in the same boat. I'm guessing about the only thing we can do is manually build Python using the same method as is used in the ebuild. Hopefully someone else has a better idea.


And 30 lashings with a spaghetti noodle to whoever did the downgrade!
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2003 8:39 pm    Post subject: My fault Reply with quote

I confess, I did it. The problem is that glibc 2.3.2 stopped compiling on alpha when gcc 3.3.1 came along. So I marked glibc 2.3.2 ~alpha until we get a version that builds right.

I'll work on that part. Sorry I messed you guys up. :-(

For the moment, I'd suggest using "emerge -U world" instead of -u, but that's a little late for anybody in this forum.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2003 5:19 pm    Post subject: Fixed Reply with quote

Well, I have now fixed it.

I untarred the Python source, did a configure --with-fpectl (I got that from the ebuild) and make, make install. That put python into /usr/local (I guess I could have found a configure option to fix that).

Anyway, it turns out that emerge calls /usr/bin/python2.2, so I linked that to my new python. The only other thing I had to do was copy the contents of /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages into /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages.

emerge then worked, so I quickly emerged python properly.

Since then I have been finding other packages not working properly (libxml2 and vim so far) and rebuilding them.

Phew, that was a close shave!
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