Re: : undefined symbol: __register_frame_info

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 06:21:32AM -1000, Torben Noerup Nielsen wrote:
> James,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Henstridge [mailto:james@daa.com.au]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 4:40 AM
> > To: Jeff Miller
> > Cc: Gnome List; gisli@master.adams.com
> > Subject: Re: : undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
> >
> >
> > As someone mentioned earlier, this problem is most likely caused by
> > running a program compiled with a newer egcs with a copy of glibc (most
> > likely 2.0.x) compiled with gcc.  The two options are to recompile the
> > applications on your own machine with your normal compiler, or to upgrade
> > to glibc 2.1, which contains a fix for this problem (it is backward
> > compatible, so you shouldn't have too many troubles).
> 
> I would like to upgrade to glibc 2.1, but it isn't available as far as I can
> tell. When might this all be resolved? Also, if someone makes it available
> as an RPM, there really is no ``unsafe" fiddling with system libraries. Not
> that I would be bothered if I had to do that.
> 
> Thanks, Torben
> 
> 
It has been available ever since it got out. glibc-2.1 only got retracted
from the official GNU mirrors for the (IMHO) silly reason that the
README advised against using gcc-2.8. You can find glibc-2.1 for
example at ftp.funet.fi in /pub/gnu/funet.

Ronald