The libgtk1.2 package from unstable, libgtk1.2_1.2.8-3.0.1, is unusable: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0: undefined symbol: lstat
This problem will prevent ANY program dynamically linked with GTK+ from running. Here's a relevant quote from /usr/include/sys/stat.h (packaged in libc6.1-dev_2.2.1-1): /* To allow the `struct stat' structure and the file type `mode_t' bits to vary without changing shared library major version number, the `stat' family of functions and `mknod' are in fact inline wrappers around calls to `xstat', `fxstat', `lxstat', and `xmknod', which all take a leading version-number argument designating the data structure and bits used. <bits/stat.h> defines _STAT_VER with the version number corresponding to `struct stat' as defined in that file; and _MKNOD_VER with the version number corresponding to the S_IF* macros defined therein. It is arranged that when not inlined these function are always statically linked; that way a dynamically-linked executable always encodes the version number corresponding to the data structures it uses, so the `x' functions in the shared library can adapt without needing to recompile all callers. */ Further inspection of this header file reveals that lstat() is an external reference only under the following conditions: #if defined __USE_BSD || defined __USE_XOPEN_EXTENDED # ifndef __USE_FILE_OFFSET64 /* Get file attributes about FILE and put them in BUF. If FILE is a symbolic link, do not follow it. */ extern int lstat (__const char *__restrict __file, struct stat *__restrict __buf) __THROW; # else ... # endif ... #endif The library libc-2.2.1.so does not contain the symbol lstat, but does define the symbols __lxstat and __lxstat64, as suggested by the header file. I'm not sure exactly what's going on here, but clearly something is wrong. It looks like it might be related to the large file (>4GB) support in glibc-2.2. Hasn't anyone else had this problem? Ian Bruce ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1