Bug#234238: libc6: relocation error

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 07:01:47PM -0000, Matthew Bates wrote:
> Package: libc6 
> Version: 2.3.2.ds1-10
> 
> I am running woody with libc6 from unstable (I guess it has been
> installed as a result of using some unstable backported apps).  After
> manually upgrading to kernel 2.6.3, it is not possible to run certain
> apps - namely, courier-authdaemon and exim4 (both rely on the
> libmysqlclient10 library) and produce the error:
> 
> ----
> Starting Courier authdaemon: /usr/lib/courier/authlib/authdaemond.mysql:
> relocation error: /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10: symbol errno, version
> GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
> ----
> 
> gcc version: 2.95.4 20011002
> libmysqlclient10: 3.23.49-8.5
> 
> I have installed 2.6.3 on another woody box and successfully used both
> apps above with mysql - this has 2.2.5-11.5 libc6 though - so I'm
> presuming libc6 is to blame here?

The library is broken; upgrade or fix it.  Somewhere it declares
'extern int errno' instead of including <errno.h>.  See the
README.Debian in the libc6 package.

We have code in place to work around this bug (always a library or
application bug, never glibc's), but it can not work for loaded
libraries.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer