@lambdacalculus the reason a direct "make install" breaks everything is, to replace the active copy of glibc, libc.so.6 and ld-linux.so.2 and a couple other files have to be replaced *in synchrony*. Package managers can do this, but "make install" can't. If they get out of sync then you have the old dynamic loader trying to load the new libc.so, or vice versa, neither works.

So if you don't have a package manager to help, you gotta do the operation with the help of a separate C runtime.

@zwol I did use '--prefix=/usr' when running configure, but the other thing is that Red Star OS is, for lack of a better description, held together with paper clips and chewing gum. North Korea, in their quest for "security systems", broke so many aspects of Fedora (the base of Red Star 3.0) that breathing funny on it will cause the system to shit the bed.

Hilarious that I can modify most everything *except* glibc, but I'll see if I can try your advice in a VM as a tester.