The year is 2002, OS is Solaris, trying to compile some httpd add-on straight on the production server (because why not) kept giving some weird error about /etc

The year is 2002, OS is Solaris, trying to compile some httpd add-on straight on the production server (because why not) kept giving some weird error about /etc/ld.so not being right. So junior me does: $ rm /etc/ld.so*