From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 5 17:09:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04116 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:09:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA04111 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:09:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA03184; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:07:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA31734; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:07:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199902060050.RAA21166@usr02.primenet.com> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 17:07:27 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > As an interesting side not to this, I was shot in the head by > the a.out ld.so just recently. > > What happenend was several machines were upgraded from a.out to > a stabilized version of 3.0, and some a.out programs ran, while > others did not. > > The failure, in all cases, was an FP exception on the a.out > executable being run. > > Attempting to ldd the binary in question also resulted in an > FP exception, while on the binaries that ran, ldd ran fine. > > Installing the missing a.out shared libraries fixed both the ldd > problem and the execution problem. > > Looks like a nasty bug in the a.out compatability ld.so. Test case, please. --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message