The Findutils package is quite old and it has problems compiling against newer Glibc versions (Glibc-2.0.x and up). You need to apply the patch, which fixes the following issues: Findutils declares a function called basename, but this function name is already used by the C standard libraries. This patch changes the Findutils version of basename function so that it is called basename2 instead. Findutils uses library files in an incorrect way. It declares library functions, to tell the compiler what the name of the function will be when the libraries are linked in. This syntax is invalid and causes compiler warnings/errors. This patch removes this improper syntax. Every GNU package is supposed use a macro called _GNU_SOURCE. This macro enables declarations of GNU library extension functions and so the compiler will be able to detect name conflicts between functions more easily. This patch adds this macro to the source code. patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-patch-version;.patch There is a bug in locate.c of Findutils that causes a segmentation fault to occur on very long path names. The problem is caused by the get_short() function calculating negative numbers incorrectly. This patch corrects this bug. patch -Np1 -i ../findutils-&findutils-segfault-patch-version;-segfault.patch Prepare Findutils to be compiled: ./configure --prefix=/usr By default, the location of the updatedb database is in /usr/var. To make the location of /var/lib/misc/locatedb file FHS compliant, pass the localstatedir=/var/lib/misc option to both make commands below. Continue with compiling the package: make libexecdir=/usr/bin Finish installing the package: make libexecdir=/usr/bin install