Blogospheric Refraction

The life and times of Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

Browsing Posts published in August, 2005

Hi All, Those who are trying to update their boxes, may have struck problems building the latest versions of glibc. It appears, a bug in the binutils package, is causing the following error message to be spat out, and thus causes portage to bomb out: /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/temp/ccyZTFe5.s: Assembler messages: /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1/temp/ccyZTFe5.s:131: Error: operation combines symbols in different [...]

Hi All, For those wondering where the 2005.1 Cobalt stages are, read on. I have just started updating my Qube’s portage tree. Once that is done, I’ll start making a seed stage (a crude stage 3 image) before the build commences in earnest. As with last time, I’ll upload the binary packages during the stage3 [...]