On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 05:06:53PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > I now tried to installing the bigendian RedHat7.1 RPMs and I noticed the > following. > > /etc/localtime is lacking in glibc-2.2.4-11.2.mips.rpm (but it's contain > in the little endian version). > All the timezone information is lacking under /usr/share/zoneinfo in > glibc-common-2.2.4-11.2 (but it's in the little endian version). Everything is cross compiled. Since x86 is little endian, I don't cross compile big endian data files, like locale and timezone. You can rebuild glibc natively to get all those data files. > > I can't changes the root password, I get the following: > # passwd root > Changing password for user root > New UNIX password: > /usr/lib/cracklib_dict: magic mismatch > PWOpen: Success > It may be the endian issue. Please recompile cracklib natively and let me know if it fixes the problem for you. H.J.
