From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: When we try to link OWS with the 32 bit/64 bit IPC library, the ipc library gives out the error that __libc_close is undefined. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Linking with a library( in our case we have an IPC library with OWS) it fails with a message _libc_close is undefined. Additional info:
That just means the IPC library is buggy, uses glibc private symbols which is not allowed. In RHEL3, __libc_close was exported, but with @@GLIBC_PRIVATE symbol version that is reserved solely for glibc's own use. For @@GLIBC_PRIVATE symbols there are no ABI guarantees, they can be added or removed or change calling conventions at any time, as nothing outside of glibc itself should ever use it. As glibc itself no longer needed __libc_close, it is not exported any longer. If you build a rpm package that has binaries or shared libraries using GLIBC_PRIVATE symbols, rpm will make sure you can't install that package to catch such bugs. But if you use some other packaging system, you need to QA libraries and binaries from using glibc private things yourself.