Robert P. J. DAY says:
According to Mike Frysinger, this patch was removed from Gentoo in the
2.3.x series and didn't seem to cause any adverse effects. So toss it
from the patch directories for glibc 2.5 and up.
2 Wed Jun 15 09:12:43 PDT 2005
6 build-glibc/libc.a(nsswitch.o)(.data+0x64): undefined reference to `_nss_files_getaliasent_r'
7 build-glibc/libc.a(nsswitch.o)(.data+0x6c): undefined reference to `_nss_files_endaliasent'
8 ... 53 lines deleted ...
9 build-glibc/libc.a(nsswitch.o)(.data+0x21c): undefined reference to `_nss_files_getspnam_r'
10 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
11 make[2]: *** [/build/gcc-3.4.3-glibc-2.3.5-hdrs-2.6.11.2/i686-unknown-linux-gnu/build-glibc/elf/ldconfig] Error 1
13 when building glibc with --enable-static-nss.
15 See http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=631
17 --- glibc-2.3.5/Makeconfig.old Wed Jun 15 08:13:12 2005
18 +++ glibc-2.3.5/Makeconfig Wed Jun 15 08:13:14 2005
21 # The static libraries.
22 ifeq (yes,$(build-static))
23 -link-libc-static = $(common-objpfx)libc.a $(static-gnulib) $(common-objpfx)libc.a
24 +link-libc-static = $(common-objpfx)libc.a $(static-gnulib) $(otherlibs) $(common-objpfx)libc.a
26 ifeq (yes,$(build-shared))
27 # We can try to link the programs with lib*_pic.a...
28 --- glibc-2.3.5/elf/Makefile.old Wed Jun 15 07:46:49 2005
29 +++ glibc-2.3.5/elf/Makefile Wed Jun 15 08:14:00 2005
31 install-bin-script = ldd
34 +ifeq (yes,$(build-static-nss))
35 +nssobjdir := $(patsubst ../$(subdir),.,$(common-objpfx)nss)
36 +resolvobjdir := $(patsubst ../$(subdir),.,$(common-objpfx)resolv)
37 +otherlibs += $(nssobjdir)/libnss_files.a $(resolvobjdir)/libnss_dns.a \
38 + $(resolvobjdir)/libresolv.a
45 Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>