Re: 2.2.4 on AMD K6

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:54:44AM -0000, Wolfram Gloger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Linux version 2.2.17 (root@dsp) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
> > CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
> > gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)
> > 
> > make check
> > ...
> > msgfmt: ../iconv/skeleton.c:302: gconv: Assertion `outbufstart == ((void *)0)' failed.
> > tst-gettext.sh: line 56: 25205 Aborted                 msgfmt -o ${objpfx}domaindir/existing-locale/LC_MESSAGES/existing-domain.mo ../po/de.po
> > make[2]: *** [/b/arc/linux/build-224/intl/tst-gettext.out] Error 134
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/b/arc/linux/glibc-2.2.4/intl'
> 
> I'm getting this as well, but on 2.2.19 with a Duron processor and
> gettext-0.10.39; I suspect it's got nothing to do with the CPU.  Were
> you building and checking with glibc-2.1.x installed (I was)?  Maybe
> this will go away when glibc-2.2 is installed before make check, but I
> haven't really tracked it down yet.

It is a glibc bug, which does

open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias",
O_RDONLYopen("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache",
O_RDONLYopen("/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = 4
open("/usr/share/locale/existing-locale/LC_MESSAGES/existing-domain.mo",
O_RDONLYopen("/usr/share/locale/existing-locale/LC_MESSAGES/existing-domain.mo",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/existing-locale/LC_MESSAGES/non-existing-domain.mo",
O_RDONLYopen("/usr/share/locale/existing-locale/LC_MESSAGES/non-existing-domain.mo",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/locale/non-existing-locale/LC_NUMERIC",
O_RDONLYopen("/usr/lib/locale/non-existing-locale/LC_NUMERIC", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/existing-locale/LC_TIME/existing-time-domain.mo",
O_RDONLYopen("/usr/share/locale/existing-locale/LC_TIME/existing-time-domain.mo",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/existing-locale/LC_NUMERIC/existing-domain.mo",
O_RDONLYopen("/usr/share/locale/existing-locale/LC_NUMERIC/existing-domain.mo",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)


H.J.