Re: 64bit startup

[Sergey Bugaev]

Hello!

On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 8:16 PM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I continued stabbing at the network issue, it was just a size alignment
> problem, so that depending on their sizes, half of the network packets
> would be discarded by mach_msg. Hurd-amd64 packages are getting rebuilt
> to contain the fix.

Awesome!

> The issue I'm still seeing now is that I cannot get to install some
> packages, such as libicu72. When I pass it as extra package to
> debootstrap, it does get installed, but when I "dpkg -i" it by hand,
> things halt.
>
> And there is still the 64bit change proposed proposed by Flavio that
> needs to get reviewed.

There's another issue we need to sort out: is it OK for Debian to ship
glibc 2.36 whose symbols claim to be GLIBC_2.38? It doesn't look like
there's been any compat symbols (as in SHLIB_COMPAT / compat_symbol)
added in between, but programs built against actual glibc 2.38 link
against newer symbols that just aren't present in 2.36 (such as those
__isoc23 functions), and you get symbol errors at runtime, instead of
the usual error about the required version not being present. Could
there be other side effects?

Sergey