[arch-dev-public] bash 4.0 / readline 6.0 rebuilds

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> Thomas Bächler wrote:
>>>
>>> Allan McRae schrieb:
>>>>
>>>> This is the point of this comment:
>>>> # Run in minimal chroot to avoid false positives due to dependencies. #
>>>> Chroot can be built with:
>>>> # sudo mkarchroot <chrootdir>/root glibc coreutils findutils grep tar
>>>> gzip
>>>>
>>>> So, in your example, if you are testing if libA needs a rebuild due to
>>>> libC, you only extract libA in your chroot, not libB.  The ldd can not chain
>>>> its way to libC.  So ti ends up doing the same thing as readelf.
>>>
>>> Now I understand it.
>>>
>>> Still, if you use readelf it does not matter what the environment is, you
>>> could run it on any system which is not even Arch, or is the wrong
>>> architecture or anything.
>>>
>>
>> Well, if that did not convince me, this does.  I just noticed that "readelf
>> --dynamic" appears to be a lot faster than "ldd".  On my /usr/bin/*, readelf
>> takes ~0.2sec while ldd takes ~12sec.  I will test this out with an actual
>> run of the script tomorrow.
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
>>
>
> Status update on the rebuild?

Well, mkinitcpio fails miserably under bash 4.0, so I definitely don't
even want to push it to testing yet - and I think it's actually a bash
issue (It errors saying that ;; is not a valid token in a certain case
statement... ?).

I can put up what I have so far somewhere, but I wanted to look at the
mkinitcpio / bash interaction first before making people's systems
unbootable (I did it to myself, hah). I've been real busy with work
deadlines and pycon (which is neat, by the way) to deal with this now.

I hope I'll have some time this weekend to play with it and get it all
shaped up - maybe Dusty (who is here at pycon) and I can get the
readline/bash rebuilds in shape on Saturday.

Dusty, you interested? We can even do a "ArchLinux packaging" open
session on it :)