glibc version in Ubuntu 10.04!

[Naresh Mehta]

Hey!

Thanks Sean & All. Thanks for pointing out the error. Yes, it infact is GLib
and not glibc. I will update the glib headers (libglib2.0-dev) and keep you
guys updated.

BR; Naresh

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Sean McNamara <smcnam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Naresh Mehta <nareshtechs at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to compile Ofono in Ubuntu 10.04. I have a problem with the
> > glibc version number. Ofono needs a version >2.16 whereas 10.04 gives
> 2.10.
> > Upstream of glibc is at 2.9. Why is ubuntu 10.04 stuck at 2.10? Is there
> a
> > reason for that and/or are there any plans to upgrade the library later
> on?
>
> Please don't confuse 2.10 and 2.1.0, or GLib and the GNU C Library :)
> Since I am unsure whether you are referring to glibc (GNU C Library)
> or GLib (GNOME's platform independent utility library), I will
> describe both requirements as clearly as I can -- both how they are
> implemented in Ubuntu, and what oFono requires.
>
> Per the GNU C Library homepage, the latest version is 2.11.2:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
>
> The GNU C Library recently has a binary-compatible fork called eglibc.
> Debian (and Ubuntu) have migrated to that; see
> http://www.eglibc.org/home for their homepage.
>
> I found out what package contains the GNU C Library in Ubuntu with this
> command:
>
> $ apt-file search /lib/libc.so.6
> libc6: /lib/libc.so.6
>
> So the libc6 package provides the GNU C Library. A bit more digging:
>
> $ aptitude show libc6
> Package: libc6
> State: installed
> Automatically installed: no
> Version: 2.11.1-0ubuntu7
> Priority: required
> Section: libs
> Maintainer: Ubuntu Core developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Uncompressed Size: 10.5M
> Depends: libc-bin (= 2.11.1-0ubuntu7), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0,
> libgcc1,
>         tzdata, findutils (>= 4.4.0-2ubuntu2)
> Suggests: glibc-doc, locales
> Conflicts: belocs-locales-bin, tzdata (< 2007k-1), tzdata-etch
> Breaks: nscd (< 2.9)
> Replaces: belocs-locales-bin
> Provides: glibc-2.10-1
> Description: Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
>  Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on
> the
>  system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C library
> and
>  the standard math library, as well as many others.
> Homepage: http://www.eglibc.org
>
> So version 2.11.1 is provided in Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> I'm not really sure where you're getting that oFono requires version
> 2.16, unless you mean GLib, which is completely different. GLib does
> indeed have a version 2.16.
>
> Looking in oFono's configure.ac, it seems that it does indeed require
> GLib (from GNOME) version 2.16 or later. So the error you're actually
> hitting is that your GLib development headers are not installed.
> Here's the salient lines of configure.ac:
>
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLIB, glib-2.0 >= 2.16, dummy=yes,
>                                AC_MSG_ERROR(GLib >= 2.16 is required))
>
> To install the GLib development headers on Ubuntu, install the package
> libglib2.0-dev.
>
> After installing the required dependencies, I got ofono to build from
> git on 10.04 with no problems.
>
> >
> > Previous versions of Ubuntu had glibc package available which is not
> > available with 10.04. It would be great if somebody can throw some light
> > here.
>
> The two packages for glibc (note: not GLib) are libc6 and libc6-dev.
> The latter is installed when you install build-essential. But the
> actual problem you're hitting is with GLib, not glibc.
>
> HTH,
>
> Sean
>
>
> >
> > Please do guide me to the appropriate mailing list if this is not the
> > intended one.
> >
> > BR; Naresh
> >
> > visit me at:
> > http://www.naresh.se/
> >
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