libc undefined reference while building ncurses

[C . Ulrich]

Hello,

I'm sorry for bothering you for what might a personal screwup of my own, but 
I have looked everywhere for a solution to this, and finding none, am 
deciding that it *might* be a bug in ncurses.

I am attempting to build glibc and ncurses in a separate directory tree, away 
from the rest of the system. I am using glibc-2.2.3 and ncurses-5.2. All of 
my build utilities are at their latest stable releases (or, at the very 
least, the minimum mentioned in glibc and ncurses docs), except for gcc which 
is 2.95.3. 

glibc seems to build fine, but a few minutes into the ncurses build, I get 
the following error:

gcc ../obj_lo/tic.o ../obj_lo/dump_entry.o -L../lib -L/usr/local/geenix/lib 
../lib/.libs/libncurses.so -s -o .libs/tic -Wl,--rpath 
-Wl,/usr/local/geenix/lib
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to address@hidden'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to address@hidden'
/lib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to address@hidden'

...and the whole make process goes downhill.

I have ncurses configured thusly:

GNX='/usr/local/geenix'
CLFLAGS=-O2 LDFLAGS=-s ./configure \
--prefix=$GNX"/usr" \
--libdir=$GNX"/lib" \
--with-libtool \
--with-shared \
--without-normal \
--enable-hard-tabs \
--enable-symlinks \
--disable-termcap \
--with-manpage-format=gzip \
--without-gpm \
--without-debug \
--with-manpage-tbl

And while we're at it, I have glibc configured thusly (in a separate build 
dir):

../glibc-2.2.3/configure \
--enable-add-ons=linuxthreads \
--prefix=/usr \
--with-elf \
--enable-shared \
--disable-profile
#made with: make make install_root=/usr/local/geenix install

ANY insight you could provide would be greatly appreciated. It is not my 
custom to fall back on maintainers for support, but every previous avenue of 
resolution has failed. Thank you for your time.

--C. Ulrich.