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[Kenny Bian <kennybian@xxxxxxxxx>]

We try to build libc6-2.28 from source code. Our board runs Ubuntu
18.04 in armhf architecture. We download the source code from
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/2.28-0ubuntu1.
Here is what we did to create the deb package:
1. We build it by using these bash commands:
/usr/bin/dpkg-source -x glibc_2.28-0ubuntu1.dsc libc6-2.28
pushd libc6-2.28/
mkdir build
pushd build/
../configure \
    --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf \
    --prefix=/tmp/armhf/libc6/usr \
    --enable-obsolete-nsl
make
make install

2. Create a deb folder and copy files to this folder. Also put the
control file and post/pre scripts in "DEBIAN" folder in the deb
folder.
3. Create deb file: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb --build --root-owner-group $deb_folder/

The deb file was created. But there are errors when we install the deb
in our armhf board(sudo dpkg -i libc6_2.28-0ubuntu1-my_armhf.deb):
Unpacking libc6:armhf (2.28-0ubuntu1) over (2.28-0ubuntu1) ...
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
dpkg: warning: old libc6:armhf package post-removal script subprocess
returned error exit status 127
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing archive libc6_2.28-0ubuntu1-my_armhf.deb (--install):
 new libc6:armhf package post-removal script subprocess returned error
exit status 127

After investigation, we finally narrowed it down to "ld-2.28.so". Its
path in the deb file is "lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ld-2.28.so". The file
ld-2.28.so built by us will cause the errors above. But the one from
the official deb works fine. We used the file ld-2.28.so from
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/2.28-0ubuntu1/+build/15300581/+files/libc6_2.28-0ubuntu1_armhf.deb
to replace the built one in our deb. There will be no errors. The deb
package can be installed properly.

I used the tool readelf, nm and objdump to check the files. There
seems to be no difference between the built file by me and the one
from the official deb. Could you tell me what could be wrong? Is there
anything I can do to investigate it?

Help please!
Thanks in advance!