RE: FAQ entry

["MacGyver" <macgyver@tos.net>]

Just some grammatical notes:

> ??	After upgrading to glibc 2.1, I receive errors about
> unresolved symbols, like `_dl_initial_searchlist' and can not execute
> any binaries.  What went wrong?
>
> {AJ} This normally happens if you try to run dynamic linker and libc
> from different versions of glibc.  For example: The dynamic linker
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 comes from glibc 2.0.x but the used libc.so.6 is
> the one from glibc 2.1.
>

Change to: This normally happens if your libc and ld (dynamic linker) are
from different releases of glibc.  For example, the dynamic linker
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 comes from glibc 2.0.x, but the version of libc.so.6 is
from glibc 2.1.

> The path /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is hardcoded in every glibc2 binary but
> libc.so.6 is searched via /etc/ld.so.cache and in some special
> directories like /lib and /usr/lib.  If you run configure with another
> prefix than /usr and put this prefix before /lib in /etc/ld.so.conf,
> your system will break.
>
> So what can you do?  Either of the following should work:
>
> * Run `configure' with the same prefix argument you've used for glibc
>   2.0.x so that the same paths are used.
> * Replace /lib/ld-linux.so.2 with a link to the dynamic linker from
>   glibc 2.1.
>
> You can even call the dynamic linker by hand if everything fails, e.g.
>
> 	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<path-where-libc.so.6-lives> \
> 	<path-where-corresponding-dynamic-linker-lives>/ld-linux.so.2 \
> 	<path-to-binary>/binary
>
> With that command line no path is used.  To further debug problems
> with the dynamic linker, use the LD_DEBUG environment variable, e.g.
> `LD_DEBUG=help echo' for the help text.
>
> If you just want to test this release, don't put the lib directory in
> /etc/ld.so.conf.  You can call programs directly with full paths (as
> above).  For compiling new programs against glibc 2.1, you've got to
> specify the correct paths to the compiler (option -I with gcc) and
> linker (options --dynamic-linker,-L and --rpath=).

Change the 'For' in the third sentence with 'When'.

Cheers,

Mac.