glibc build failure on Ubuntu intrepid
- Found in: 2008/05/18 on Ubuntu intrepid on i386
glibc build fails:
gcc-4.1 -fno-stack-protector ../sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c -c -std=gnu99 -fgnu89-inline -O3 -Wall -Winline -Wwrite-strings -fmerge-all-constants -fstrict-aliasing -g1 -pipe -Wstrict-prototypes -mpreferred-stack-boundary=4 -Wno-uninitialized -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -D__LIBC_INTERNAL_MATH_INLINES -I../include -I/work/plash/glibc-build/math -I/work/plash/glibc-build -I../sysdeps/i386/elf -I../plash/sysdeps/overrides -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i486 -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386 -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../nptl/sysdeps/pthread -I../sysdeps/pthread -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux -I../sysdeps/gnu -I../sysdeps/unix/common -I../sysdeps/unix/mman -I../sysdeps/unix/inet -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv/i386 -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../sysdeps/unix/sysv -I../sysdeps/unix/i386 -I../nptl/sysdeps/unix -I../sysdeps/unix -I../sysdeps/posix -I../nptl/sysdeps/i386/i486 -I../sysdeps/i386/i486 -I../sysdeps/i386/fpu -I../nptl/sysdeps/i386 -I../sysdeps/i386 -I../sysdeps/wordsize-32 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-96 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 -I../sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 -I../sysdeps/ieee754 -I../sysdeps/generic/elf -I../sysdeps/generic -I../nptl -I../plash -I.. -I../libio -I. -D_LIBC_REENTRANT -include ../include/libc-symbols.h -DNOT_IN_libc=1 -DIS_IN_libm=1 -o /work/plash/glibc-build/math/ftestexcept.o -MD -MP -MF /work/plash/glibc-build/math/ftestexcept.o.dt -MT /work/plash/glibc-build/math/ftestexcept.o
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:52: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `fnstsw'
binutils' behaviour changed and this exposed a bug in glibc. See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-659645.html.
This problem is fixed by upgrading to glibc 2.8 (done in Story21).