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diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in index 93784f62f7..53889ff4a3 100644 --- a/FAQ.in +++ b/FAQ.in @@ -657,6 +657,19 @@ option is using NSS. There is no switch anymore. Therefore it is *highly* recommended *not* to use --enable-static-nss since this makes the behaviour of the programs on the system inconsistent. +?? I just upgraded my Linux system to glibc and now I get + errors whenever I try to link any program. + +{ZW} This happens when you have installed glibc as the primary C library but +have stray symbolic links pointing at your old C library. If the first +`libc.so' the linker finds is libc 5, it will use that. Your program +expects to be linked with glibc, so the link fails. + +The most common case is that glibc put its `libc.so' in /usr/lib, but there +was a `libc.so' from libc 5 in /lib, which gets searched first. To fix the +problem, just delete /lib/libc.so. You may also need to delete other +symbolic links in /lib, such as /lib/libm.so if it points to libm.so.5. + ? Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them ?? I expect GNU libc to be 100% source code compatible with |