Recovery

[Couannette]

Hi all,

a few days ago my Lunar Linux was in bad shape and can't build modules 
like kernel or glibc.

I think I started an update & rebuild that broke gcc and standard 
include files.
I recovered thanks to Florin that built for me gcc & glibc.

Perhaps this problem is linked to the famous gettext trouble that's 
annoyed a lot of LL users recently, perhaps it's coming from an strange 
mis relin of gcc that delete or corrupted its internal includes (look in 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/include/). In fact the DETAILS 
file of gcc changed recently and I suspect this one.

Everyone agree that gcc is the most important module in a source 
distribution. It seems that recent versions have to be in sync with 
glibc (there is a patch in gcc/DETAILS that handles this case). And a 
simple update of Lunar does not handle such critical rebuild (check and 
order).

I've selected optimization options when I started to use LL in november 
and my system worked fine until recently ; but I discovered that build 
error where partialy due by incorrect make/tar/find behaviour. Thus 
after I repaired gcc & glibc, I rebuilt coreutils, tar, findutils and 
make with no option selected in SPD. And now all is working normally.

I would suggest that relin of critical modules (make, gcc, glibc) 
includes a "make check" or some regression test before installing so 
that the building environment be protected against miss compiled modules.

Couannette