Weird Glibc

[hast]

im trying to use ldap for passwd look-ups
except getpwnam() does not seem to use ldap lookups even though it is defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf
also getpwent() returns the correct result..

applications like 'id' which use getpwname() don't seem to load libnsl or try opening the /etc/nsswitch.conf file

however, applications which use getpwent() like getent load libnsl and try opening /etc/nsswitch.conf

i am completely stumped as to why this is happening
does anyone know of a possible solution..

btw using the glibc-2.2.5-r7 ebuild and CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe"