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@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ please let me know.
 4.4.	What other sources of documentation about glibc are available?
 4.5.	The timezone string for Sydney/Australia is wrong since even when
 	daylight saving time is in effect the timezone string is EST.
+4.6.	I've build make 3.77 against glibc 2.1 and now make gets
+	segmentation faults.
 
 
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@@ -212,7 +214,8 @@ program has the needed functionality.
 We recommend version GNU make version 3.75 or 3.77.  Versions before 3.75
 have bugs and/or are missing features.  Version 3.76 has bugs which
 appear when building big projects like GNU libc. 3.76.1 appears to work but
-some people have reported problems.
+some people have reported problems.  If you build GNU make 3.77 from source, 
+please read question question 4.6 first.
 
 
 1.4.	Do I need a special linker or assembler?
@@ -1428,6 +1431,16 @@ for Sydney we have
 Great!  To get this bug fixed convince the authorities to change the laws
 and regulations of the country this effects.  glibc behaves correctly.
 
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+4.6.	I've build make 3.77 against glibc 2.1 and now make gets
+	segmentation faults.
+
+{AJ} GNU make 3.77 has support for 64 bit filesystems which is slightly
+broken (and one of the new features in the GNU C library 2.1 is 64 bit
+filesystem support :-( ).  To get a working make you can use either make
+3.75 or patch 3.77.  A working patch is available via RedHat's Rawhide server
+(ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/SRPMS/SRPMS/make-3.77-*src.rpm).
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