Justin A. Kolodziej wrote:
> doctor@fruitbat.org wrote:
> >
> > Barry Treahy ...
> > >
> > > I downloaded libc.so.5.4.46 binaries and installed them on my 2.0.33
> > > (Slackware distribution) and was a bit upset when my system chocked with
> > > a last gasp of breath stating the the new library was not ELF?!?! I'm
> > > no wizard here, but I know that this shouldn't happen.
> >
> > Well, I didn't have any problem *installing* the library and bringing
> > up the system, but once it was up, certain things would no-longer work.
> > For example: running "make" would core dump all the time. An strace of
> > make shows it getting a SIGSEGV right after a stat() call for an RCS
> > directory. That right there made it infeasible to keep 5.4.46.
>
> Thus sayith the Documentation/Changes file:
>
> If you upgrade to libc-5.4.46, please read and pay attention to its
> accompanying release notes. The section about it breaking make is not
> a joke.
>
> Problem is, I can't find the damned file that says what the workaround is in the
> source distribution, (not README.*, Changelog or release.libc) and the binary
> distribution has no docs at all!!
>
> So I can't say RTFM because the FM is no good :(
> --
> My lucky number has been disconnected.
>
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