I read on the GNU web page (http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Configuring-and-compiling.html) that glibc can be compiled without the TLS support by using the option '--without-tls'. So I did, using the following command:
../configure --prefix=/home/me/glibc-2.19/build/ --without-tls
and then
make
but apparently such a flag does not have the desired effect given that I can still see the sections .tdata and .tbss in the libc.so.6 object using readelf. Why is this happening? Is that option merely ignored?