Here is the list of libraries linked against in this generic version: libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x056ac000) libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x004f1000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00746000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x003b6000) libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1 (0x00df8000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0039e000) Here is the version number of libc: $ /lib/tls/libc.so.6 | head -1 GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.2, by Roland McGrath et al. Here are the options we used to configure it: configure --build=i386-pc-linux-gnu --enable-tarfile --enable-static --with-issue=Generic