<So this is why compiling source on certain distributions fail> was how to add a new glibc symbol ?

[Michael Hipp]

James McDonald wrote:

  > I wonder, as things progress, will the work arounds provided by binary
> distributions make it more and more difficult to compile everything from
> source?

My experience so far has been exactly the opposite. My previous distros 
(RH6.1, RH6.2, RH 7.3, COL2.4, COL3.1.1) compiling from source was 
almost impossible. I'll bet than I couldn't get 1 package out of 20 to 
compile. It was always "export this, symlink that, get this obscure lib, 
diddle with config settings, ad naseum" and it still wouldn't work. Now, 
on RH9, I (very) rarely have problems compiling from source.

That's why I've finally become enthusiastic about Linux - things 
actually work.

Michael