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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 segments

The build usually falls apart from there. This problem affects both 2.3.4 and 2.3.5. Currently, progress on building 2005.1 stages is halted due to this issue.

At the moment, I’m trialling binutils-2.16.1 (as opposed to 2.x.9x.x.x series, which have known issues), and there are plans to potentially mark it stable on mips. glibc-2.3.5 is a definate candidate for a bump to stable.

So, for those who have hit this problem… try upgrading using the following commands:

# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~mips" emerge =binutils-2.16.1
# source /etc/profile
# ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~mips" emerge =glibc-2.3.5

If you’re paranoid, do the following, first, before attempting an upgrade:

# quickpkg /var/db/pkg/sys-libs/glibc* /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/binutils*

then store the resulting packages somewhere handy, as you’ll need them if you have to recover your system.

We hope to have the situation rectified in the very near future.

Regards,
Stuart Longland.

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