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Subject: Re: LINUX statically linked ELF nogo?
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From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
Date: 12 May 1997 15:39:03 +0100
In-Reply-To: Michael Reifenberger's message of Mon, 12 May 1997 16:14:42 +0200 (MET DST)
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Michael Reifenberger <root@totum.plaut.de> writes:

> To summarize a bit my trials so far.
> 
> o I have module linux loaded.
>   (And working with some linux-apps like Staroffice..)
> o brandelf "Linux" does not work.
> o The only dynamicaly linked binary of the installation worked.

Run ktrace on it. I seem to remember a similar problem and it was
because /compat/linux was missing some essential bits. I think the
error message is the same regardless of why it fails and is therefore
highly misleading in many cases.

I could be wrong though :-)

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