Rebuilding RHEL3 libc.so from source

[Michael ODonnell]

I wrote:
> it looks like we might have to resort to instrumenting
> some low-level funcs in libc

After flailing about and wondering why something that I'd
assumed would be straightforward is so hard, I found this
writeup that appears to confirm this *is* surprisingly
difficult.  No need to read the whole thing but you might
find the last section ("The Easy Way") entertaining:

Warning: the only profanity in the document
         happens to be in that last section...

   http://bradthemad.org/tech/notes/patching_rpms.php

  --M