how to add a new glibc symbol ?

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:57:03 -0800 Lonni J Friedman <lfriedman at vasoftware.com>
wrote:

> I've painted myself into a corner, and figured out that the reason why I 
> can't build rpm again is because the __ctype_b symbol was removed from 
> the glibc __ctype_b_loc function in glibc-2.3.2.  If that makes sense to 
> you, then keep reading.
> 
> I found some more details here:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86465
> 
> So basically, this is way out of my league, and i'm barely comprehending 
> it, or whether this is a solution to my current situation.  Is anyone 
> able to understand this well enough to offer any suggestions?
> 

Fixing it would definitely be out of our league, but the bug report seems fairly
easy to understand.  Apparently the later version of glibc with ncurses has
permanently eliminated the offending function to clean up some sort of conflict
in the 'locale' domain.  There is a fix in this bugzilla for RH8 (inline some
functions, including the missing one), and there is apparently another
bugzilla for RH9 that hasn't been fixed yet.

glibc probably should have done a better job publishing this 'cleanup,' i.e.
'screwup' for anyone using the desired function.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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