Bug#174040: acknowledged by developer (Bug#174040: fixed in glibc 2.3.1-8)

[Phil Edwards <pme@devphil.com>]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:18:10PM -0600, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> Changes: 
>  glibc (2.3.1-8) unstable; urgency=high
>  .
>    * Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
>      - debian/patches/glibc23-errno.dpatch: Temporarily re-enable linking
>        to "errno" to fix compatibility with broken binaries
>        (Closes: #174040, #174004).

Thanks.  I haven't tried -8 myself, but I trust Dan.  :-)

I've sent some source patches against qmail to its upstream to fix this.



Phil

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