On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:19:53AM -0400, Joe Drew wrote: > Package: libc6 > Version: 2.3.1-17 > Severity: normal > > When I compile a binary statically which uses iconv(), and then deploy > that binary on a glibc 2.2.5 machine, it fails: > > albatross:/# /usr/local/bin/msgfmt -o de.gmo de.po > /usr/local/bin/msgfmt: iconv failure: Argument list too long > > This, I believe, is because of some incompatible change in gconv. While > the statically-compiled binary includes gconv() from glibc 2.3.1, the > /usr/lib/gconv .so files are compiled against glibc 2.2.5. > > This indicates to me that some backwards-incompatible change has > happened. This may or may not be desired behaviour; feel free to close > this bug if this operation is intentionally unsupported.
I'll leave the bug in case anyone else has comments, but this is a known issue - static binaries really just aren't portable between glibc 2.2 and 2.3, for both this and NSS reasons. Sucks. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
