At 11:59 12.11.97 , Richard Henderson wrote: >> - gcc/configure.in for alpha*gnulibc1 adds mkfrag t-linux-gnulibc1, is this >> necessary for powerpc? > >Probably not.  Alpha changed the name of ld.so along with the >libc major version number between 1.99 and 2.0.0. Ah, yes I remember seeing this in the glibc rpm-spec, for alpha its ld.so.2, for all others ld.so.1. So the only simpification possible will be common libc/stdio-lock.h prototypes for alpha and powerpc. Will you do that and submit/check in the patch? Thanks, Franz.