Hah, I remember that. The pain was acceptable in my case since I was still at school and did this purely for "fun" because I wanted to. Both this move to glibc

Hah, I remember that. The pain was acceptable in my case since I was still at school and did this purely for "fun" because I wanted to. Both this move to glibc and the prior move from a.out to ELF taught me an incredible amount about Linux (and unixoid systems in general) because I had to rebuild pretty much everything in the system by hand, reading everything's READMEs and learning a bit more about them. (My system at the time originally came from a distribution installed by CD, but was then never upgraded the official way but only move forward with source tarballs, i.e. no package management. I got that luxury much later.) Fun times.