<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Troubleshooting—if something goes wrong... </TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Glibc Installation HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="After the kernel is booted..." HREF="after-the-kernel-is-booted.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Errors with configure or make while trying to compile glibc" HREF="errors-with-configure-or-make-while-trying-to-compile-the-glibc.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="chapter" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Glibc Installation HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="after-the-kernel-is-booted.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="errors-with-configure-or-make-while-trying-to-compile-the-glibc.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="chapter" ><H1 ><A NAME="troubleshooting" ></A >Chapter 5. Troubleshooting—if something goes wrong... </H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >5.1. <A HREF="errors-with-configure-or-make-while-trying-to-compile-the-glibc.html" >Errors with <B CLASS="command" >configure</B > or <B CLASS="command" >make</B > while trying to compile glibc</A ></DT ><DT >5.2. <A HREF="something-goes-wrong-during-make-install.html" >Something goes wrong during <B CLASS="command" >make install</B ></A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><P >If you come to this section and you have followed all the instructions above, you probably encountered the problem of different Linux distributions, some of which do not keep stuff where it should normally be, but somewhere else. The Suse Linux distributions are most famous for such stupid quirks, but there may be others having similar problems. If you encounter such a thing and you find the cause for the trouble—and hopefully a solution—please let me know and I will add this to my HOWTO.</P ><P >I think this section will never really be complete, but I will list some possible errors and solutions for these issues.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="after-the-kernel-is-booted.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="errors-with-configure-or-make-while-trying-to-compile-the-glibc.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >After the kernel is booted...</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Errors with <B CLASS="command" >configure</B > or <B CLASS="command" >make</B > while trying to compile glibc</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >