checkinstall won't work w/ my fedora core 1

[rmg57@telus.net]

Tim Wunder wrote:
> I've spent a little time trying to resolve my one problem issue with FC1, 
> checkinstall failing. I've installed checkinstall via RPM that was built for 
> fedora core 1, so it seems that this should work.  A post of the problem to 
> the checkinstall users list about a month ago resulted in no help. Hopefully 
> one of the superior minds on this list will be able to provide me with a 
> clue.
> OK, here's what happens:
> # checkinstall -R
> 
> checkinstall 1.5.3, Copyright 2001 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
>            This software is released under the GNU GPL.
> 
> 
> 
> Installing with "make install"...
> 
> ========================= Installation results ===========================
> /bin/sh: relocation error: /usr/lib/installwatch.so: undefined symbol: 
> __builtin_va_start
> 
> ****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.
> 
> Cleaning up...OK
> 
> Bye.
> 
> I ran checkinstall with the highest debug level thusly:
> # checkinstall -d2 -R
> 
> checkinstall 1.5.3, Copyright 2001 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
>            This software is released under the GNU GPL.
> 
> 
> debug: Setting umask => 0022
> debug: The temporary directory is: [ /var/tmp/aPVfaYnfmhEFBrWJXDnm ]
> 
> 
> Installing with "make install"...
> 
> ========================= Installation results ===========================
> /bin/sh: relocation error: /usr/lib/installwatch.so: undefined symbol: 
> __builtin_va_start
> 
> ****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.
> 
> Cleaning up...OK
> 
> Bye.
> 
> 
> A google search on "undefined symbol: __builtin_va_start" resulted in a lot of 
> gcc-related stuff, none of which made any sense to me. (Other than to 
> indicate that __builtin_va_start was a pretty common, basic symbol.)
> 
> Anybody care to suggest a path to troubleshooting this?
> 
> Thanks, 
> Tim
> 

I dunno about having a superior mind, but I've been using checkinstall 
1.6.0beta3 lately, don't know if it fixes your problem or not but I was 
getting quite a few failed builds with 1.5.3 as compared to 1.6.0beta3. 
FWIW, I run Slackware not Fedora.

-- 
All the best!

RMG