From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 13 19:40:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA03614 for current-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 19:40:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (garbanzo@haiti-110.ppp.hooked.net [206.169.228.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA03608 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 19:40:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA22551 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 19:41:14 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 19:41:12 -0800 (PST) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org Reply-To: Alex To: current Subject: problems with gzip'd executables Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Has anyone else noticed that gzip'd programs will give errors when you run them, however uncompressing them will remedy the situation. I have a feeling this has something to do with the recent changes to the dynamic linker. Any ideas? zippy:~#/usr/local/bin/tcsh You have mail. # exit zippy:~#cd /usr/local/bin zippy:/usr/local/bin#gzip -9 tcsh zippy:/usr/local/bin#./tcsh.gz /usr/libexec/ld.so: Cannot find program's a.out header zippy:/usr/local/bin#strings /kernel|grep gzip gzip ___pseudo-device gzip # Exec gzipped a.out's - alex