[07:11] <fabbione> configure: error:
[07:11] <fabbione> *** These critical programs are missing or too old: as ld
[07:11] <fabbione> *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.
[07:11] <fabbione> make: *** [/build/buildd/glibc-2.5/stamp-dir/configure_libc]  Error 1
[07:11] <fabbione> doko: what have you done? :)
[07:12] <fabbione> checking for as... as
[07:12] <fabbione> checking version of as... v. ?.??, bad
[07:12] <fabbione> checking for ld... ld
[07:12] <fabbione> checking version of ld... v. ?.??, bad
[07:33] <fabbione> doko: the version in ld/as did change from X.Y.Z to XYZ
[07:33] <fabbione> is that change permanent?
[07:33] <fabbione> or just a build error our side?
[08:48] <doko> fabbione: it's an unmodified snapshot build. apparently the glibc version detection goes wrong
[09:23] <fabbione> doko: glibc expects a release.. not a cvs snapshot
[09:24] <fabbione> doko: do you want to fix the binutils version or should i get crazy to fix the glibc detection?
[09:25] <doko> yes, seeing that now. wondering how this did work with previous snapshots ... I'll fake a version 2.17.50.something
[09:25] <fabbione> ok
[09:27] <fabbione> # Accept binutils 2.13 or newer.
[09:27] <fabbione> AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(AS, $AS, --version,
[09:27] <fabbione>                   [GNU assembler.* \([0-9] *\.[0-9.] *\)] ,
[09:27] <fabbione>                   [2.1[3-9] *] , AS=: critic_missing="$critic_missing as")
[09:27] <fabbione> AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(LD, $LD, --version,
[09:27] <fabbione>                   [GNU ld.* \([0-9] [0-9] *\.[0-9.] *\)] ,
[09:27] <fabbione>                   [2.1[3-9] *] , LD=: critic_missing="$critic_missing ld")
[09:27] <fabbione> doko: that's the reason why i think we should fake the version in binutils
[09:27] <fabbione> parsing cvs snapshots date will make that check way too compilcated
[09:29] <doko> the strange thing is that the cvs checkout has 2.17.50, while the tarball produced by upstream has the date ...
[10:16] <doko> $ ld --version
[10:16] <doko> GNU ld version 2.17.50 20070103 Debian GNU/Linux
[10:16] <doko> $ as --version
[10:16] <doko> GNU assembler 2.17.50 20070103 Debian GNU/Linux
[10:16] <doko> ok, now changing that to Ubuntu ...
[10:24] <fabbione> don't change Debian to ubuntu
[10:24] <fabbione> IIRC we did carry Debian all over and pkgs might rely on that
[10:40] <doko> the autotools tests rely only on the two first numbers, everything else is a string
[10:46] <fabbione> yeps