[Nix-dev] Re: Revision 19868 breaks checkinstall on RedHat host systems

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Peter,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:

> Revision 19868 introduced a patch to fix compilation of checkinstall on
> Glibc 2.11, but unfortunately, it breaks compilation of the package on
> older version -- such as glibc 2.5, which is used on Red Hat host
> systems.

Note that glibc 2.5 is very old.

> Does anyone have a suggestion how to remedy that problem?

Perhaps you could make the patch conditional on whether ‘stdenv’
contains a ‘glibc’ attribute?

Thanks,
Ludo’.