problems with JOVE using libc6

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

I'm having slight problems with JOVE using libc6 on a Debian Linux system
(kernel=2.0.36, Debian=2.1).  I compiled the 4.16 source myself.  (I
needed to change to "-lncurses" (instead of "-ltermcap") to avoid getting
warnings about dependencies upon libc5.)

One easily ignoreable problem is that new files somehow are considered
"changed" and must be "overwritten" when finally written.  This is not a
big problem.

A bigger problem is that after using JOVE a while, it says that my TMP file
has become corrupted and that I should not continue editing.

I assume that some interface to some standard C library file has changed in
libc6.  Has anyone else experienced this problem and, more importantly,
has anyone worked out a fix?

Thanks.