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Suspiciously specific. :) I've put myself in similar situations, they're some of the best lessons I learned.

I got hit by the glibc breaking make (not a joke) bug once upon a time. To fix it you had to go download make sources and build them from a shell script. Almost as much fun as dpkg breaking in Debian once or twice upon a time.

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