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

[Kurt Wall]

Consuming 0.9K bytes, James McDonald blathered:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> To date I have used mostly used Caldera, Mandrake, Redhat... but I prefer
> to compile from source for the `learning experience'. I'm sure I must have
> come up against the same sort of problem and never known why before.
> 
> I wonder, as things progress, will the work arounds provided by binary
> distributions make it more and more difficult to compile everything from
> source?

No. Just Crimson Bonnet. ;-)

Kurt
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