GNU bug report logs - #21216
glibc and linux-libre-headers

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>

Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 23:57:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, notabug

Fixed in version 0.9.1

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 21216 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21216: glibc and linux-libre-headers
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 19:16:32 +0100

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:23:40 +0200
ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> However, instead of installing the ‘glibc’ package, you may want to
> install the ‘gcc-toolchain’ package, which provides all the tools needed
> to do software development (GCC, libc, Binutils, the ‘ld wrapper’, etc.)

I tried that now - that works fine. 

Why can I install glibc (when it doesn't work anyway)? What's the difference?
Is it documented?

Thanks.

Regards,
   Danny
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