gv on the latest linux distros

[Guido Sunderovich]

There have been many reports that gv does NOT function with glibc 2.9.
I found that simply rebuilding with the latest gcc (gcc++) all works
fine. Please apprise all major distros that this is mandatory. Many
folks are still putting v3.6.2 compiled with old gcc/glibc on their
current directories.

[Karl Berry]

    There have been many reports that gv does NOT function with glibc 2.9.

Markus, do you know why is gv so sensitive to the exact libc version?
It seems surprising.

[Markus Steinborn-2]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     There have been many reports that gv does NOT function with glibc 2.9.
>
> Markus, do you know why is gv so sensitive to the exact libc version?
> It seems surprising.
Sorry, no idea. The only thing I can tell you that I sucessfully
installed it in a virtual machine running Fedora 10 (without any
updates), which is shipped with "glibc-2.9-2.i386.rpm". Fedora Rawhide
(the upcoming Fedora 11) contains GNU gv 3.6.7 and in Redhat's bugzilla
there is no bug reporting any problems with it. IIRR Fedora 10 contains
GNU gv 3.6.6 (at least after installing all available updates). Again no
bug report can be found in redhat's bugzilla.

So to tell the truth: I do not know how to handle this bug report.

@Bernhard: Are there any problems of this kind known in debian testing
and/or unstable (they are shipped with glibc 2.9 according to
http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/glibc.html ) ?

Greetings from Germany

Markus Steinborn

[Markus Steinborn-2]

Guido Sunderovich wrote:
> There have been many reports that gv does NOT function with glibc 2.9.
> I found that simply rebuilding with the latest gcc (gcc++) all works
> fine. Please apprise all major distros that this is mandatory. Many
> folks are still putting v3.6.2 compiled with old gcc/glibc on their
> current directories.
>  
Thank you for reporting this issue.

Well, I do not have every distribution to test with, but on Fedora 10
(without updates) it worked for me. On debian's bug tracker, there is no
bug reporting with this issue and the debian gv maintainer recently
reported GNU gv 3.6.7 being working on debian unstable - and yes, debian
testing and unstable are shipped with glibc 2.9. So any instructions how
to reproduce this bug would be helpful. Then we can investigate what
goes wrong.


Greetings from Germany

Markus Steinborn
GNU gv maintainer

[Karl Berry]

    > I found that simply rebuilding with the latest gcc (gcc++) all works

This all sure sounds like it is about gcc, libc, and mpfr, not
anything about gv specifically.  Which makes sense.