[NTLUG:Discuss] Rebuilding (G)libc from an SRPM

[George Lass]

I am attempting rebuild libc (or maybe glibc) for a redhat
8.0 system. The originally installed libc in /lib has the
following characteristics:

-rwxr-xr-x    2 root     root      1327065 Sep  5  2002 libc-2.2.93.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           14 Apr 27 05:51 libc.so.6 ->
libc-2.2.93.so

but when rebuilt (using rpm & rpmbuild) from glibc-2.2.93-5.src.rpm it
looks like this:

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     11255857 Sep 20 17:56 libc.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            7 Sep 20 17:30 libc.so.6 ->
libc.so

I'm somewhat reluctant to actually install this thing given that it is
nearly
10X the size of the original.  Anyone have any ideas?

George