On 24 Oct 2010, Richard W. M. Jones said:
This needs to be fixed in febootstrap. I'll have a look at it tomorrow.
I thought so: this was a more a heads-up that the problem existed than a neat patch. A similar uname-inspecting trick followed by resetting LD_LIBRARY_PATH should work (though you shouldn't just terminate it with : as I did, as this means to search the current directory if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is unset. Something like ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:}${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-} would be better.)
Any reason not to be building with debootstrap + debirf on Debian? It produces a native Debian appliance, and modulo continual bugs in debootstrap & debirf it does work.
Firstly, I wanted to see if it worked :) Also, although I have a Debian system, my VM host is actually an LFS box running eglibc with Debian's patches applied. Like Debian, I happen to think that /lib is the right place for the machine's 'native bitness', and if you want a specific bitness (which you rarely do), you should look in /lib32 and /lib64 explicitly. Also also, the last time I ran debootstrap it chewed the line for hours (much longer than febootstrap) then failed to give me a working system at the end of it. At least I know febootstrap is a tested and working appliance-builder! ;} i.e., those continual bugs don't exist (at least not to such a degree) in febootstrap.