glibc 2.1.97 / manual @refs and installation over glibc-2.1.3

[Jaakko Hyvätti <jaakko dot hyvatti at iki dot fi>]

  Hi!

  This might be some tool version thing or some other mistake by me,
but the installation of  glibc-2.1.97 with linuxthreads failed in
two things:

1. linuxthreads.texi has some invalid links: @pxref{Range of Type} and
@ref{Signal Handling}.  I do not know the correct ones, I just erased them
or looked up the next closest thing - so do not apply this patch:

--- glibc-2.1.97/linuxthreads/linuxthreads.texi.~1~	Tue Oct 31 19:09:53 2000
+++ glibc-2.1.97/linuxthreads/linuxthreads.texi	Sun Nov  5 01:59:52 2000
@@ -959,8 +959,8 @@
 
 Semaphores have a maximum value past which they cannot be incremented.
 The macro @code{SEM_VALUE_MAX} is defined to be this maximum value.  In
-the GNU C library, @code{SEM_VALUE_MAX} is equal to @code{INT_MAX}
-(@pxref{Range of Type}), but it may be much smaller on other systems.
+the GNU C library, @code{SEM_VALUE_MAX} is equal to @code{INT_MAX},
+but it may be much smaller on other systems.
 
 The pthreads library implements POSIX 1003.1b semaphores.  These should
 not be confused with System V semaphores (@code{ipc}, @code{semctl} and
@@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@
 @deftypefun int pthread_kill (pthread_t @var{thread}, int @var{signo})
 @code{pthread_kill} sends signal number @var{signo} to the thread
 @var{thread}.  The signal is delivered and handled as described in
-@ref{Signal Handling}.
+@ref{Threads and Signal Handling}.
 
 @code{pthread_kill} returns 0 on success, one of the following error codes
 on error:


2. During installation, after iconvdata has been installed, my old
glibc-2.1.3 does not like the new iconv files any more.  For example gawk,
xterm and emacs die on assertion, I guess this was something like
outbufstart == NULL, but cannot be sure as I forgot to grab it. My
solution was to 'mv /usr/lib/gconv /usr/lib/temp.gconv' as soon as
gconvdata was installed, and then move it back after rest if the
installation completes - as it needs gawk on the texinfo manuals.

  Other than these, make check seemed to pass and the system with
glibc-2.1.97 works fine.

System:

linux-2.4.0-test10
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
makeinfo (GNU texinfo) 4.0
GNU Awk 3.0.3
devfs with no compatibility links

450 MHz AMD K6-3, underclocked to 416 MHz for stability with
Asus P/I-P55T2P4 and 83MHz bus.
64MB ram

Otherwise the system is a result of natural hardware and software
evolution since 1992, most of the tools compiled from source, so the fault
may be my setup and tools.

Hope this help anyone,
Jaakko