Re: libc.so.5.4.46 binaries

doctor@fruitbat.org
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:38:43 -0700 (PDT)


Barry Treahy mumbled something about ...
>
> I downloaded libc.so.5.4.46 binaries and installed them on my 2.0.33
> (Slackware distribution) and was a bit upset when my system chocked with
> a last gasp of breath stating the the new library was not ELF?!?! I'm
> no wizard here, but I know that this shouldn't happen.

Well, I didn't have any problem *installing* the library and bringing
up the system, but once it was up, certain things would no-longer work.
For example: running "make" would core dump all the time. An strace of
make shows it getting a SIGSEGV right after a stat() call for an RCS
directory. That right there made it infeasible to keep 5.4.46. I've
stored my 5.4.33 libc and things are back to normal.
BTW, I'm using 2.0.35 kernel on a 3.2 Slackware system.
So, what's the deal? I know there's this big push to move to glibc2,
but this isn't the way to do it ;-) Libc5 *will* be around for quite a
while, weither the C-Library pundants want it to or not. So would the
maintainer please give us a clue as to how to track this one down?

> I had to reboot off of floppies and restore the libc.so.5 link to my
> older library. Anyone know what the story is? Did I botch something?

Check the permissions on the file; make sure it's at least 555

> Barry

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Peter A. Castro (doctor@fruitbat.org) or (pcastro@us.oracle.com)

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