glibc 2.1 upgrade problem

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>]

I tried to upgrade my system [1]from glibc 2.1 980621 to the current
version and got the following failure:

make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/glibc/src/libc/elf'
/bin/install -c -m 644 /usr/glibc/src/build-real/libc.a /usr/lib/libc.a
: /usr/lib/libc.a
/bin/install -c -m 644 /usr/glibc/src/build-real/libc_p.a /usr/lib/libc_p.a
: /usr/lib/libc_p.a
/bin/install -c -m 644 /usr/glibc/src/build-real/libc_nonshared.a /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a
: /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a
make -C elf ldso_install
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/glibc/src/libc/elf'
/bin/install -c /usr/glibc/src/build-real/elf/ld.so /lib/ld-2.0.94.so.new
mv -f /lib/ld-2.0.94.so.new /lib/ld-2.0.94.so
rm -f /lib/ld-linux.so.2.new
rm: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: no version information available (required by /lib/libc.so.6)
rm: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: no version information available (required by /lib/libc.so.6)
rm: error in loading shared libraries: /lib/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_sysdep_start, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference (no version symbols)
make[2]: *** [/lib/ld-linux.so.2] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/glibc/src/libc/elf'
make[1]: *** [elf/ldso_install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/glibc/src/libc'
make: *** [install] Error 2

Naturally, my system was unusable at this moment.  With the help of
LD_LIBRARY_PATH and a backup copy I got a working system again.
Shouldn't we add the sln from glibc 2.0 to glibc 2.1 also?  I do fear
that other people trying to upgrade to glibc 2.0.95 will have the same
problems.

Another problem appeared when I called `make install install_root=/tmp/install-libc':
make 3.76.93 outputs:

make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/glibc/src/libc/localedata'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/tmp/install-libc/usr/share/i18n/charmaps', needed by 'install-others-nosubdir'. Stop
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/glibc/src/libc/localedata'
make[1]: *** [localedata/subdir_install] Error 2

After creating /tmp/install-libc/usr/share/i18n/charmaps and also
...i18n/locales and ...i18n/repertoiremaps, `make
localedadata/subdir_install' succeeded - but nothing was installed.
It might be that everything was up-todate.

I finally managed to install everything and it seems;-) to work now.

Andreas

Footnotes: 
[1]  i486 running Linux 2.0.35, glibc 2.1 compiled with Linux 2.1.111
     headers and options: --prefix=/usr --enable-add-ons --without-cvs
     Compiler is a current egcs (2.91.52 19980727), make 3.76.93.


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