Undefined symbol "__libc_toupper_tab_"

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Jun 13 05:20:29 PDT 2005


On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:48:46PM +0300, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> On 13 June 2005 13:24, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:42:15AM +0300, Yury Tarasievich wrote:
> > > each time I try to run something like freebsd-4's opera or openoffice.
> > > System is 1.3.1 (May 31) and X is 6.8.2, compiled on it. What does that
> > > mean, I mean, deeper than not finding the (present) symbol?
> >
> > It means that you have a dynamically linked program which is linked against
> > the old libc and wants to link a library build against the new libc.
> > Sorry, this can't work. Best for the moment is to fetch a package with
> > the libraries and use e.g. LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a wrapper script.
> 
> You mean *all* required libraries from freebsd-4, down to libc.so.4, right? 
> Wouldn't that hit the locale compatibility problem?

Yes. Since you have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH anyway, you can set PATH_LOCALE
too :) I have an idea how to fix this, but haven't had time to implement
it yet.

Joerg





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