I believe shared library/PIC is broken under ia32 since Aug. 29.

Mon Sep 4 04:21:00 GMT 2000

>>>>> H J Lu writes:

 > Please take a look at
 > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2000-08

 > and check all reports on Linux/ia32 configured with --enable-shared.
 > You will see since around Aug. 29, PIC is broken:

Same problem here - the current CVS version miscompiles therefore
glibc.

Andreas
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