Re: [XFree86] extract (gnu-tar) segfaults on debian SID

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David Dawes writes:
 > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:24:23AM +0200, wim delvaux wrote:
 > >It happens when installing 4.3.0 with Xinstall.bin
 > >
 > >MD5 sums seems to be identical 
 > >
 > >Does anybody know why or have the same experience ?
 > 
 > We occasionally see reports like this, but I don't recall if the
 > reason for the problem was found.  The extract binary for Linux is
 > statically linked.  Maybe we need dynamically linked versions?

Yes, I think that's the problem. Statically linked libc's are not 
really static any more as they pull in shared modules. This seems 
to be causing trouble.
I had the same problem with the static version of cvsup which we
have.

Egbert.
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