Bug#574405: libfiu: has hardwired (and hence works only with) libc.so.6

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Alberto,

Not sure if you are subscribed to the bug list but I received this bug
report in Debian:

Serafeim Zanikolas wrote:

> [..]
> libfiu-0.13/preload/posix/codegen.c has a hardwired reference to libc.so.6:
> 
>         _fiu_libc = dlopen("libc.so.6", RTLD_NOW);
>         if (_fiu_libc == NULL) {
>                 fprintf(stderr, "Error loading libc: %s\n", dlerror());
>                 exit(1);
>         }
> 
> This makes the library unusable in systems with any other libc version (eg.
> FTBFS of a package which Build-Depends on fiu-utils, in caballero.d.o
> which has libc.so.6.1

Just to translate from Debian-ese a little: caballero is an IA64 machine
which uses libc.so.6.1. The alpha architecture does this as well.

Please let me know if want anything compiled/tested on these machines.

(Please keep the Cc when replying!)


Regards,

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