On Thursday 28 August 2003 03:53, David Dawes wrote: > 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. I had that problem too and just downloaded the utils in source and compiled the gnu-tar util. W > > David _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
