Re: Bug#63485: More issues with the lsparc 64 bit stuff vs. other 64 bit archs in ldconfig/ld.so


Subject: Re: Bug#63485: More issues with the lsparc 64 bit stuff vs. other 64 bit archs in ldconfig/ld.so
From: David Engel (dlengel@home.com)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 19:47:01 PDT


On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 02:27:21PM -0400, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> Well, I didn't even get to file a bug report and patch to ld.so before
> the new package was uploaded, and I spent several hours today tracking
> the problem, too. I guess I should get into the habit of tracking

I figured the bug was serious enough that I wanted to revert the
problematic change as quickly as possible. :(

> c) We have a patch for our libc on Sparc that has its own version of
> ldconfig, and this version of ldconfig uses a *different* flag to
> indicate ELF64 libraries (debian/patches/ldconfig.dpatch in the
> glibc source tree):

Why doesn't anyone ever send me these patches? Anyway, I still should
have double checked that I was using the same flag as RedHat.

> The Sparc people should probably sit down and figure out a good way to
> do all this that won't break other archs.

Agreed.

David

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