Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 17:07:27 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Message-ID: <XFMail.990205170727.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199902060050.RAA21166@usr02.primenet.com>
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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.
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
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