[Ltib] skipping incompatible /lib/libc.so.6

[James Newell]

I started to have this issue when I moved from RedHat 4.x to Fedora 16.  I found a couple different archived emails about it but they never seemed to track down the real issue.  If it was resolved, then please forgive the email.

/nim2/ltib/rootfs/lib:/home/jnewell/work/nim2/ltib/rootfs/usr/lib -Wall hello.c -o hello

/home/opt/sdk/cs/ppc-gnu-2010q4/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../powerpc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /lib/libc.so.6 when searching for /lib/libc.so.6

/home/opt/sdk/cs/ppc-gnu-2010q4/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../powerpc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find /lib/libc.so.6

/home/opt/sdk/cs/ppc-gnu-2010q4/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../powerpc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a when searching for /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a

/home/opt/sdk/cs/ppc-gnu-2010q4/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../powerpc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a

/home/opt/sdk/cs/ppc-gnu-2010q4/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-linux-gnu/4.5.1/../../../../powerpc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find /lib/ld.so.1

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I tracked it to dist/lfs-5.1/glibc/glibc.spec:

perl -w -e '

    @ARGV = grep { `file $_` =~ m,ASCII C program text, } @ARGV;

    exit(0) unless @ARGV;

    $^I = ".bak";

    while(<>) {

        s,[\S/]+/,,g if m,^GROUP,;

        print;

    }

...

The 'file' command returns different results for these platforms:

RedHat Enterprise 4.x:  $ file rootfs/usr/lib/libpthread.so  

rootfs/usr/lib/libpthread.so: ASCII C program text

Fedora 16: $ file rootfs/usr/lib/libpthread.so 

rootfs/usr/lib/libpthread.so: ASCII English text

The above code therefore doesn't match on the Fedora 16 and never removes any of the offending absolute paths from the text search files.

Regards,

Jim