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

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:30:57AM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
>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 can build a glibc22-based dynamically linked version (don't have any
glibc23 systems here at the moment) and put that up for both the glibc22
and glibc23 bindists if that would help.

David
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David Dawes                                     X-Oz Technologies
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