dosemu doesn't work due to glibc bug

[Bambang Pranoto]

I just installed fresh ubuntu 12.04

I was succesfully compiled dosemu-1.4.0, unfortunately didn't work (it worked in ubuntu previous version). Looking to the ~/.dosemu/boot.log I found this weird messages:

MFS: dos_gen: path_to_ufs '/home/bambang/.dosemu/drives/c//command.com'
MFS: dos_fs: build_ufs_path result is '/home/bambang/.dosemu/drives/c/commndd.com'

Notice that command.com is mangled to commndd.com, very strange.

Searching in google I found the same error: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3440083&group_id=49784&atid=457447

A comment in above page suggest that the error is due to glibc which has been fixed here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/15674

1. Ubuntu version:
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04

2. Package version:
ldd (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.15-0ubuntu10) 2.15
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

3. Expected to happen: dosemu runs

4.What happened instead: dosemu doesn't run due to problem described above

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libc6 2.15-0ubuntu10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 30 11:23:07 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eglibc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

This isn't a glibc bug, and the glibc commit referenced in the log here was applied long ago (and is in the precise glibc).

The comments on the dosemu tracker imply that this has been fixed in more recent dosemu SVN snapshots, if one can hunt down the commit, it could certainly be backported.