Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 09:01:13 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: garbanzo@hooked.net Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with gzip'd executables Message-ID: <199712141701.JAA19447@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213193041.20991D-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213193041.20991D-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.971213193041.20991D-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>, Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> wrote: > 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 I think you're right -- it's related to my recent dynamic linker changes. Actually it's caused not by my original changes, but by the work-around I put in later for the emacs bug. Sigh. I'll try to do something to make it work again. I really don't want to abandon the changes entirely if I can avoid it. Being able to debug from core dumps is too big of a win. However, I may have to back out my changes temporarily in order to buy time to fix the problems that have been cropping up. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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