Bug#165790: Glibc 2.3.1-2 in unstable broken

[jason mclaughlin <jasonmc@sympatico.ca>]

Package: libc6
Severity: grave

Glibc (libc6 2.3.1-2) in unstable appears to be missing symbols for several functions prototyped in ctype.h; the following trivial piece of code fails to compile:


#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main() {
        if (isprint('A'))
                printf("%c", toupper('a'));
}

with this error from ld:

/tmp/ccqkNPiO.o(.text+0x7): In function `main':
: undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

This problem only starting occuring after my most recent apt-get upgrade.