Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:42:10 -0600

Hi,

> so if I believe the debugger, there is a bug in the 
> thread-safe version of our C-library, but I don't dare to make such a
statement about the
> million-times-used glibc version 2.2.5 ...

This could well be a glibc problem.

Are you linking statically or dynamically?

There was a definite problem with static builds and some versions of
glibc discussed in tech-talk, starting on July 31, 2003.  Thread was
"Problem with static build on Linux".  I was getting strange errors like
yours in commonly used libraries and functions, e.g.:

"I have tested the static image on another Linux system and it sometimes
fails in nss_getline() as one the other system, but it sometimes fails
in __current_locale_name() instead."

My resolution to the problem was to upgrade glibc:

"Following up on suggestions here earlier today I upgraded all of the
glibc packages on my Redhat 8 machine to the latest versions from
Redhat.  It does indeed fix the problem, and I can now build
applications statically that run fine.

sonata> rpm -qa | grep glibc 
glibc-debug-2.3.2-4.80.6 
glibc-2.3.2-4.80.6 
glibc-devel-2.3.2-4.80.6 
glibc-common-2.3.2-4.80.6 
glibc-profile-2.3.2-4.80.6 
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-7.20 
glibc-utils-2.3.2-4.80.6 
glibc-debug-static-2.3.2-4.80.6 "

Mark Rivers

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System