Comment 5 for bug 1418239

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2015-02-17 05:13 EDT-------
I logged as root and these are the steps i followed.
Please check if there is any mismatch with the sequence of commands.
Please try with fresh apt-get source glibc..

root@ubuntu:~# ifconfig | grep 'inet addr'
inet addr:9.114.13.130 Bcast:9.114.15.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet addr:10.0.3.1 Bcast:10.0.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
root@ubuntu:~# hostname
ubuntu
root@ubuntu:~# whoami
root
root@ubuntu:~# pwd
/root
root@ubuntu:~# mkdir new
root@ubuntu:~# cd new
root@ubuntu:~/new# apt-get source glibc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
NOTICE: 'glibc' packaging is maintained in the 'Svn' version control system at:
svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-glibc/glibc-package/
Need to get 13.5 MB of source archives.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main glibc 2.19-15ubuntu1 (dsc) [8,692 B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main glibc 2.19-15ubuntu1 (tar) [12.4 MB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main glibc 2.19-15ubuntu1 (diff) [1,055 kB]
Fetched 13.5 MB in 0s (19.2 MB/s)
gpgv: Signature made Mon 09 Feb 2015 01:14:06 AM CST using RSA key ID B1CDE58F
gpgv: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: warning: failed to verify signature on ./glibc_2.19-15ubuntu1.dsc
dpkg-source: info: extracting glibc in glibc-2.19
dpkg-source: info: unpacking glibc_2.19.orig.tar.xz
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dpkg-source: info: applying ubuntu/submitted-no-stack-backtrace.diff
dpkg-source: info: applying ubuntu/unsubmitted-increase-dtv-surplus.diff
root@ubuntu:~/new# pwd
/root/new
root@ubuntu:~/new# cd glibc-2.19/
root@ubuntu:~/new/glibc-2.19# dpkg-buildpackage -b
dpkg-buildpackage: source package glibc
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 2.19-15ubuntu1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution vivid
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Adam Conrad <email address hidden>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture ppc64el
dpkg-source --before-build glibc-2.19
dpkg-source: info: using options from glibc-2.19/debian/source/options: --compression=xz
debian/rules clean
dh_clean
rm -f debian/*.install
rm -f debian/*.install.*
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Build started: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:04:06 -0600
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checking build system type... powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... powerpc64le-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc... powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc-4.8
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc-4.8 accepts -g... yes
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether powerpc64le-linux-gnu-g++-4.8 accepts -g... yes
checking for powerpc64le-linux-gnu-readelf... powerpc64le-linux-gnu-readelf
checking for systemtap static probe support... yes
checking for sysdeps preconfigure fragments... powerpc x86_64
configure: running configure fragment for add-on libidn
configure: running configure fragment for add-on nptl
checking for assembler and linker STT_GNU_IFUNC support... yes
checking whether .text pseudo-op must be used... yes
checking sysdep dirs... sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/fpu nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/nptl sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64 sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/wordsize-64 nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux nptl/sysdeps/pthread sysdeps/pthread sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux sysdeps/gnu sysdeps/unix/inet nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/sysv sysdeps/unix/powerpc nptl/sysdeps/unix sysdeps/unix sysdeps/posix sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/fpu/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/fpu/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power5+/fpu/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power5/fpu/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power4/fpu/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/fpu/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/fpu sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/fpu sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power5+/fpu sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power5/fpu sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power4/fpu/ sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/fpu sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power5+/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power5/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power4/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/multiarch sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power7 sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power6 sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power5+ sysdeps/powerpc/power5+/fpu sysdeps/powerpc/power5+ sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power5 sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power4/fpu sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power4 sysdeps/powerpc/power4/fpu sysdeps/powerpc/power4 sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64 sysdeps/wordsize-64 sysdeps/powerpc/fpu nptl/sysdeps/powerpc sysdeps/powerpc sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128ibm sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64 sysdeps/ieee754/flt-32 sysdeps/ieee754 sysdeps/generic
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether as is GNU as... yes
checking whether ld is GNU ld... yes
checking for as... as