On Sat, 13 Nov 1999 16:09:23 -0800 (PST) 
 Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:

 > 
 > An attempt to build out of the source tree from yesterday and run off it
 > went well except that:
 > 
 > /usr/lib/libc.so.12: Undefined PLT symbol "setsid" (reloc type = 26,
 > symnum = 1002)
 > 
 > happened, which caused most programs to not be able to run. Is it my
 > toolchain that is out of date? This is a NetBSD-1.4 or so:
 > 
 > nobble > gcc -v
 > Using builtin specs.
 > gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)

This is a known bug in some recent changes to the dynamic linker.  I've
posted several messages about it to a separate developers list (which
you're on).

Still looking for the exact cause of the problem, tho I have the symptom
precisely pinpointed.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>