Bug 460118

Summary: glibc configure complains about "old 'crypt' add-on"
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk>
Component: glibcAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Exclude crypt and localedata from the list of automatically selected addons none

Description Denys Vlasenko 2008-08-26 09:11:38 UTC 
Trying to configure glibc with just

$src/configure --prefix=/usr

doesn't work, it says:

*** It seems that you're using an old `crypt' add-on.  crypt is now
*** part of glibc and using the old add-on will not work with this
*** release.  Start again with fresh sources and without the old

But the user did NOT specify "crypt" addon, configure picked it up
automatically! This is stupid.

Looks like it was introduced quite some time ago:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/libc-hacker/2001-01/msg00040.html

The fix is trivial, attaching it.
Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2008-08-26 09:12:41 UTC 
Created attachment 314968 [details]
Exclude crypt and localedata from the list of automatically selected addons
Comment 2 Ulrich Drepper 2008-09-03 23:01:31 UTC 
No, we are not adding work-arounds for user errors.  Just remove those directories.
Comment 3 Denys Vlasenko 2008-09-04 09:32:04 UTC 
But those directories come directly from glibc cvs tree, I did not create them. What I am doing wrong?
Comment 4 Ulrich Drepper 2008-09-04 15:57:21 UTC 
Remove them or do it as everybody does, use --enable-add-ons=libidn,nptl.