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Re: Latest Glibc from CVS has segmentation problems.
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes:
> That's precisely what I'm doing. The problem is that the thing
> doesn't want to compile, or doesn't pass "make check", and people keep
> telling me I shouldn't be compiling it instead of giving some kind of
> hint as to what might be wrong.
>
> Use a debugger to find out, if you don't know how to use one, don't
> mess with glibc. It is a evil beast.
It's not so easy to start debugging 100 MB of code if you're not
familiar with it, even if you know how to use a debugger. I was
hoping that someone, possibly, would know what the error was all
about. As it turned out, Richard Henderson did have a fix for some of
them.
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