Hi Stuart, I just check glibc again, _IO_stdin_used is an internal symbol, it will not be used by any external program (check <libio.h> for details) and is not exported from libc: gee:~:[0]$ nm /lib/libc.so.6 |grep _IO_stdin 00115840 d _IO_stdin 00115940 D _IO_stdin_ w _IO_stdin_used Please remove it from the spec, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj@suse.de private aj@arthur.inka.de http://www.suse.de/~aj