openssh, gcc-3.0, and glibc

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Tue Jun 19 17:55:00 GMT 2001


Stephen L Moshier <moshier@mediaone.net> writes:

> On another system with old C library, gcc-3.0 builds the program successfully.
> So apparently there is some kind of bad interaction with the new glibc.
> 
> The nonworking ssh program gets a segmentation fault during startup,
> before reaching "main" and the debugger does not provide any symbolic help.

I assume you mean x86.  gcc 3 is unsupported for all released glibc
and even the CVS version.  There are major compatibility problems
introduced by gcc which nobody so far addressed.  This is also true
for other "old" glibc ports like m68k and Alpha.

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