undefined symbol: _IO_2_1_stdin_

[Keith Jacob]

On 20/12/98 8:09 PM, Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr> tapped out:

>
>Keith Jacob wrote:
>> 
>> Any clues? Please?
>> 
>> Full errror is
>> 
>> error in loading shared libraries
>> : undefined symbol: _IO_2_1_stdin_
>> 
>> When?
>> 
>> Whenever I try to run pre-compiled binaries (mostly from stock LinuxPPC
>> RPMs) from late-1998 builds.
>
>Are you trying to run R4.1 binaries with R4 libraries? 

Not that I know of; certainly not intentionally.

>This won't work.
>You have to upgrade your glibc (and everything else). Better wait for R5
>and stay with binaries linked with glibc-961212 (if you can find out
>which ones they are :-)).
>
>I am pretty sure this(*) will be one of the very FAQs over the next
>months. That's why I kept the excessive crossposting list from Keith's
>original. I would love to be wrong on this. 

Excessive crossposting? What else are these lists for? (-:
>
>> 
>> BTW, Gary Thomas's latest egcs-1.1-1b RPMs include bins that exhibit this
>> behaviour, e.g. gcc!
>
>This is very strange. So maybe your problem is something else, after
>all.
>
>(*) A typical variant for pre-R5 binaries is:
> error in loading shared libraries
>: undefined symbol: __libc_start_main
>
>--
>Martin

After a *lot* more digging around, I can only assume this is actually a 
header problem, i.e. binaries compiled against the wrong headers will 
give this error message. But, as usual, the normal caveats apply; e.g. do 
I really know what I'm talking about...


--
Keith Jacob
kjacob at wantree.com.au




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