Thank Michael, that's a satisfying answer, even though it doesn't show SuSE in a bright light. Marian Michael Ströder wrote: > > I worked around this glibc-bug by building --without-threads. > > I had some conversation with the glibc maintainer of S.u.S.E. They > will not provide an official update for glibc of S.u.S.E. Linux 7.1 > for this particular bug. :-(