diff -Nru glibc-2.2.4.orig/elf/ldconfig.c glibc-2.2.4/elf/ldconfig.c
--- glibc-2.2.4.orig/elf/ldconfig.c	Mon Jul 23 19:53:40 2001
+++ glibc-2.2.4/elf/ldconfig.c	Wed Jan 30 13:13:09 2002
@@ -697,8 +697,11 @@
 	     a directory. */
 	  if (__builtin_expect (stat64 (real_file_name, &stat_buf), 0))
 	    {
-	      if (opt_verbose)
-		error (0, errno, _("Cannot stat %s"), file_name);
+	      if (strstr (file_name, ".so") != NULL)
+	        unlink (real_file_name);
+	      else
+	        if (opt_verbose)
+		  error (0, errno, _("Cannot stat %s"), file_name);
 	      continue;
 	    }
 	  is_dir = S_ISDIR (stat_buf.st_mode);