rpm & glibc catch22

[Net Llama!]

A week ago I upgraded glibc from 2.2.5 to 2.3.2, without any problems. 
I forgot at the time that glibc upgrades tend to break rpm.  So today I 
was pleasantly reminded of that fact when I attempted to rebuild a SRPM, 
and rpm just segfaulted.

I've been down this road before, although not neccerily with the same 
versions of glibc or rpm.  On the current box, i have rpm-3.0.6, and my 
understanding is that this is the only version that is compatible with 
both rpm-3.x & rpm-4.x, so moving to rpm-4.x would not be an option, 
unless I wanted to toss my rpm database goodbye, and start from scratch. 
  So, i'm attempting to build rpm-3.0.6, however make keeps bombing out:

/usr/bin/gcc-2.95.3 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I. -g -O2 -c popt.c 
-fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/popt.lo
popt.c: In function `poptGetNextOpt':
popt.c:596: `FLT_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
popt.c:596: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
popt.c:596: for each function it appears in.)
popt.c:598: `FLT_MIN' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[4]: *** [popt.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/netllama/stuff/rpm-3.0.6/popt'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/netllama/stuff/rpm-3.0.6/popt'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/netllama/stuff/rpm-3.0.6/popt'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/netllama/stuff/rpm-3.0.6'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

 From what i've found by Googling, this is caused by either a botched 
glibc, or borked /usr/include/[linux,asm,scsi] symlinks.  Well, the 
symlinks are definitely ok, and while i'm not 100% certain, i think my 
glibc is fine, seeing as how everything else works just fine on this 
box.  So, i'm wondering if rpm-3.0.6 is just too old to build against 
glibc-2.3.2.

Anyone have the wisdom to shine any light on this conundrum?

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L. Friedman                       	       netllama at linux-sxs.org
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