Re: Core-updates: Downloads do not work

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:

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>> The C library’s getaddrinfo and other lookup functions can of course be
>> used without nscd, which is what your applications were using.
>> 
>> What differs here is that the bootstrap Guile is statically linked, and
>> getaddrinfo and similar functions are not fully functional in statically
>> linked binaries.
>> 
>> Hmm, that said, we should probably build the bootstrap libc with
>> --disable-nscd to avoid this problem altogether.  I’ll try that, but
>> rebuilding everything is gonna take ages again...
>
> Well, if it solves the problem, it is worth the time!

I’ve rebuilt and uploaded all the bootstrap binaries with a libc that
doesn’t use the nscd and has static NSS modules.  With commit 79580eb of
core-updates, these new binaries are being used.

Let me know how it works!  :-)

Ludo’.