The getline stuff should be made in a more clean way ... perhups it will be
then upstreamable ... who knows ;)

putw and getw could also be put in a __dietlibc__ conditional ...

--- findutils-4.1.orig/locate/code.c	1994-09-26 23:06:09.000000000 +0000
+++ findutils-4.1/locate/code.c	2002-09-18 23:37:03.000000000 +0000
@@ -172,7 +172,11 @@
       if (diffcount < -LOCATEDB_OLD_OFFSET || diffcount > LOCATEDB_OLD_OFFSET)
 	{
 	  putc (LOCATEDB_OLD_ESCAPE, stdout);
-	  putw (diffcount + LOCATEDB_OLD_OFFSET, stdout);
+	  {
+	    int a = diffcount + LOCATEDB_OLD_OFFSET;
+	    fwrite(&a,sizeof(a),1,stdout);
+	  }
+//	  putw (diffcount + LOCATEDB_OLD_OFFSET, stdout);
 	}
       else
 	putc (diffcount + LOCATEDB_OLD_OFFSET, stdout);
diff -Nur findutils-4.1.orig/locate/locate.c findutils-4.1/locate/locate.c
--- findutils-4.1.orig/locate/locate.c	1994-09-26 23:06:14.000000000 +0000
+++ findutils-4.1/locate/locate.c	2002-09-18 23:37:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -246,8 +246,12 @@
       if (old_format)
 	{
 	  /* Get the offset in the path where this path info starts.  */
-	  if (c == LOCATEDB_OLD_ESCAPE)
-	    count += getw (fp) - LOCATEDB_OLD_OFFSET;
+	  if (c == LOCATEDB_OLD_ESCAPE) {
+	    int a;
+	    fread(&a,sizeof(a),1,fp);
+	    count += a - LOCATEDB_OLD_OFFSET;
+//	    count += getw (fp) - LOCATEDB_OLD_OFFSET;
+	  }
 	  else
 	    count += c - LOCATEDB_OLD_OFFSET;

--- ./gnulib/lib/getline.c.orig	Wed Aug 20 14:00:08 2003
+++ ./gnulib/lib/getline.c	Wed Aug 20 14:01:39 2003
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
-
+#if 0
 #if defined __GNU_LIBRARY__ && HAVE_GETDELIM
 
 int
@@ -145,4 +145,5 @@
 {
   return getdelim2 (lineptr, n, stream, delimiter, 0, 0);
 }
+#endif
 #endif
--- ./gnulib/lib/getline.h.orig	Wed Aug 20 13:59:59 2003
+++ ./gnulib/lib/getline.h	Wed Aug 20 14:00:34 2003
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@
 
 /* glibc2 has these functions declared in <stdio.h>.  Avoid redeclarations.  */
 # if __GLIBC__ < 2
-
+/*
 int
 getline PARAMS ((char **_lineptr, size_t *_n, FILE *_stream));
 
 int
 getdelim PARAMS ((char **_lineptr, size_t *_n, int _delimiter, FILE *_stream));
-
+*/
 # endif
 
 #endif /* not GETLINE_H_ */