Very Computer

I just upgraded to libc-5.4.44 (binary distribution
from sunsite).  Everything seems to work, exept
make is broken.  Whenever I try it, I get:
 "Memory fault (core dumped)".

The following was obtained when I looked at the
core:

 "GDB 4.16 (i486-slackware-linux),
Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
Core was generated by `make'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.5...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...done.
#0  0x8004096 in sigprocmask ()
(xxgdb) Function "main" not defined."

I tried reinstalling the previous libc-5.4.38,
to no avail.  Could someone give me a clue?
I've tried everything I know to resolve this,
including a dejanews and yahoo search.

Thanks,

John

: I just upgraded to libc-5.4.44 (binary distribution
: from sunsite).  Everything seems to work, exept
: make is broken.  Whenever I try it, I get:
:  "Memory fault (core dumped)".

Sorry , but RTFM !!!!!!!!!!
in release.libc-5.4.44 H.J. writes at the beginning:

  5. If your make doesn't work anymore, please get the latst GNU make
  from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu. In the mean time, a working
  GNU make binary is provided as make-3.75.tar.gz. You can use it to
  build the new one.

remember to read the release notes first!

bye,
      mark

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The announcment in comp.os.linux.announce contained only this:

| DISTRIBUTION FILES:
|
| 1.      libc-5.4.44.bin.tar.gz
| 2.      libc-5.4.44.tar.gz
| 3.      libc-5.4.38-5.4.44.diff.gz

but the release* files were not mentioned. They weren't included in
libc-5.4.44.bin.tar.gz either. Usually there are some files like NEWS or
README or something like that *included in the tar file* if there is
something noteworthy. Since nothing like this was included in the binary
distribution, I (and most likely others as well) assumed that this was
only a bug fix release and not a bug introducing release.

Quote:> in release.libc-5.4.44 H.J. writes at the beginning:

>   5. If your make doesn't work anymore, please get the latst GNU make

  >> in release.libc-5.4.44 H.J. writes at the beginning:
  >>
  >> 5. If your make doesn't work anymore, please get the latst GNU make

  mb> I wonder which other programs are also affected by this change and
  mb> have to be changed... I think I'm staying with 5.4.38.

AFAIK GNU make is the only one.  The problem was GNU make had a bug, in
that it was relying on a bug in libc.  I don't think any other apps had
this bug (or at least I've never seen anyone report other apps with this
bug).

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