WHY!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mark <mark at mxnet dot demon dot co dot uk>]

All,
    Can someone please help with the glib2 installation ... its driving
me nutts !

It is me or it this the most painful this to install and configure ever?
It's worse than PPP and XFree86 combined !

After having to upgrade just about everything the configuration went
fine .. no complaints. The make ... again no problems !

make install ??? It gets all upset and dumps this out:

 /usr/src/glib-build/elf/ldconfig -d /lib /usr/lib
CC="gcc" /usr/bin/perl scripts/test-installation.pl /usr/src/glib-build/
In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:57,
                 from /tmp/test-prg30811.c:2:
/usr/include/libio.h:370: parse error before `_IO_seekoff'
/usr/include/libio.h:370: parse error before `_G_off64_t'
/usr/include/libio.h:371: parse error before `_IO_seekpos'
/usr/include/libio.h:371: parse error before `_G_fpos64_t'
Execution of gcc failed!
The script has found some problems with your installation!
Please read the FAQ and the README file and check the following:
- Did you change the gcc specs file (neccessary after upgrading from
  Linux libc5)?
- Are there any symbolic links of the form libXXX.so to old libraries?
  Links like libm.so -> libm.so.5 (where libm.so.5 is an old library)
are
wrong,  libm.so should point to the newly installed glibc file - and
there
should be
  only one such link (check e.g. /lib and /usr/lib)
You should restart this script from your build directory after you've
fixed all problems!
Btw. the script doesn't work if you're installing GNU libc not as your
primary library!
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/glibc-2.1.2'
make: *** [install] Error 2

OK so I can see what it's saying, and yes I've sorted out the gcc specs
file. And no there aren't any references to the old lib in /lib or
/usr/lib - (they've all been moved according to the installation guide -
http://www.imaxx.net/~thrytis/glibc/Glibc2-HOWTO-5.html) So why's is
complaining ? It the installation script buggy ? I've also looked at the
file /usr/include/libio.h, couldn't see anything obviously wrong.

System Specs:
        Linux 2.2.9
        glib 2.1.2
        ld 2.9.1
        gcc 9.95.2
        
I'd be really grateful if someone any tell me what its going on about.

Thanks in advance

Mark