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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1997-10-29 20:33:40 +0000
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1997-10-29 20:33:40 +0000
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Update.
1997-10-29 21:20  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* libio/strops.c (_IO_str_seekoff): If mode is zero and the read/write
	pointers are tied set mode according to current stream mode.

	* include/features.h [_GNU_SOURCE] (_POSIX_C_SOURCE): Define to
	199506L.
	Define _XOPEN_SOURCE to 500 if _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined.
	* manual/creature.texi: Describe this.

	* manual/socket.texi: Describe connect, accept, send, sendmsg, sendto,
	recv, recvfrom, and recvmsg as cancelation points.
	* sysdeps/unix/inet/syscalls.list: Add __libc_* names for these
	functions.

1997-10-17  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* Make-dist (try-sysdeps): Don't look for stub files anymore.

	* manual/maint.texi (Porting): Remove another reference to stub
	directory.

	* sysdeps/unix/bsd/sun/sethostid.c: Include stub version from
	generic subdir.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/irix4/reboot.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/irix4/swapon.c: Likewise

1997-10-29 03:54  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* resolv/nss_dns/dns-host.c: Change variable pointed to by h_errnop
	in all error cases (PR 244).

1997-10-29 00:56  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* posix/glob.c: Fix handling of expressions like "*/" (PR 325).
	Optimize by using mempcpy.

1997-10-17  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* po/Makefile ($(mo-installed)): Don't fail during installation if
	files don't exist (might happen if msgfmt doesn't exist) (PR 328).
	Suggested by Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>.

1997-10-24  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* sysdeps/generic/bits/errno.h (ENOMSG): Define it.
	Pointed out by Klaus Espenlaub
	<kespenla@hydra.informatik.uni-ulm.de> (PR libc/259).

1997-10-28 17:40  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_cbrt.c: Testing the returned exponent for
	zero isn't enough to determine illegal arguments.
	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_cbrtf.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_cbrtl.c: Likewise.

1997-10-28 17:14  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* manual/filesys.texi (S_ISVTX): Describe that it is available with
	_BSD_SOURCE only.
	Reported by Jochen Hein <jochen.hein@delphi.central.de>.

1997-10-28 04:26  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* time/tzfile.c (__tzfile_compute): Use negated value of offset for
	timezone variable.
	* time/tzset.c (tz_compute): Likewise.
	Reported by Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>.

1997-10-28 02:51  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

	* manual/filesys.texi: Correct prototype in readdir_r description.
	Reported by Jim Meyering <meyering@eng.ascend.com>.

1997-10-27  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* math/libm-test.c (cbrt_test): Add test for cbrt(0.970299).

1997-10-26 19:39  Zack Weinberg  <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>

	* stdlib/l64a.c: Produce a useful result for n < 0.
	* stdlib/a64l.c: Use unsigned type for working variable.
	* manual/string.texi (general): Grammar, typo, overfull fixes.
	(strlen): Insert warning about sizeof(char *).
	(a64l, l64a): Make documentation agree with implementation.

	* libio/iofdopen.c: Use _IO_FILE_complete, not _IO_FILE_plus.
	* posix/unistd.h: Add prototypes for __pread, __pread64, __pwrite
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diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index c37ae5b7ed..b1e4da343f 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ please let me know.
 [Q27]	``Programs like `logname', `top', `uptime' `users', `w' and
 	  `who', show incorrect information about the (number of)
 	  users on my system.  Why?''
+
+[Q28]	``After upgrading to a glibc 2.1 with symbol versioning I get
+	  errors about undefined symbols.  What went wrong?''
 
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 [Q1]	``What systems does the GNU C Library run on?''
@@ -734,12 +737,31 @@ symlink that you have in place before you install glibc.  However,
 
 
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+[Q28]	``After upgrading to a glibc 2.1 with symbol versioning I get
+	  errors about undefined symbols.  What went wrong?''
+
+[A28] {AJ} In a versioned libc a lot of symbols are now local that
+have been global symbols in previous versions. When defining a extern
+variable both in a user program and extern in the libc the links
+resolves this to only one reference - the one in the library. The
+problem is caused by either wrong program code or tools. In no case
+the global variables from libc should be used by any program. Since
+these reference are now local, you might see a message like:
+
+"msgfmt: error in loading shared libraries: : undefined symbol: _nl_domain_bindings"
+
+The only way to fix this is to recompile your program. Sorry, that's
+the price you might have to pay once for quite a number of advantages
+with symbol versioning.
+
+
+~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
 
 Answers were given by:
 {UD} Ulrich Drepper, <drepper@cygnus.com>
 {DMT} David Mosberger-Tang, <davidm@AZStarNet.com>
-{RM} Roland McGrath, <roland@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
-{HJL} H.J. Lu, <hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
+{RM} Roland McGrath, <roland@gnu.org>
+{HJL} H.J. Lu, <hjl@gnu.org>
 {AJ} Andreas Jaeger, <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
 {EY} Eric Youngdale, <eric@andante.jic.com>
 {PB} Phil Blundell, <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com>