Rebind mount?
On Nov 16, 2011 5:45 PM, "Allan Gottlieb" <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
> > I am reinstalling gentoo on a Dell inspiron 6400 laptop
> > I am (again) using lvm2.
> >
> > I just built the kernel and then (following the lvm2 guide) tried
> >
> > emerge lvm2
> >
> > This required a build of help2man, which failed with
> >
> >>>> Configuring source in
> /mnt/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/help2man-1.38.2/work/help2man-1.38.2 ...
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man
> --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc
> --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-nls
> > checking for perl... perl
> > checking for module Locale::gettext... yes
> > checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> > checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> > checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> > checking for suffix of executables...
> > checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> > checking for suffix of object files... o
> > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> > checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc accepts -g... yes
> > checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc option to accept ISO C89... none
> needed
> > checking for library containing dlsym... no
> > checking for library containing bindtextdomain... none required
> > configure: error: dlsym() required
> >
> > !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
> > !!!
> /mnt/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/help2man-1.38.2/work/help2man-1.38.2/config.log
>
> I thought that instead of mounting /dev/vg/usr on /usr
> I would mount it at /mnt/usr and have /usr a symlink to /mnt/usr
>
> (Similarly for opt et al)
>
> This worked for a while but
> /usr/lib/libdl.so is a symlink to ../../lib64/libdl.so.2
> and the symlink uses physical not logical interpretation of ..
>
> Hence /usr/lib/../..  is /mnt instead of /
>
> oops.
>
> allan
>
>

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