Re: vmware and linuxthreads

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 22:37 -0600, A. P. Kennedy wrote:

> Here is mine:
> 
> 
>  ldd /usr/local/lib/vmware/bin/vmware
>         linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00000000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /ia32/lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0x55587000)
>         libm.so.6 => /ia32/lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x5558b000)
>         libX11.so.6 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x555ae000)
>         libXext.so.6 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x55675000)
>         libXi.so.6 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x55683000)
>         libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf.so.2 (0x5568b000)
>         libglib-1.2.so.0 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x556a0000)
>         libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x556c2000)
>         libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x556c5000)
>         libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x556fd000)
>         libpthread.so.0 => /ia32/lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x55845000)
>         libc.so.6 => /ia32/lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x55854000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x55555000)

OK, thanks for confirming this.  I will just leave this nugget of
knowledge in the mailing list's archive for posterity:

To run vmware 4.5.2 on Debian/amd64, your dynamic linker needs to use
the libc from Debian/x86, rather than the libc in the ia32-libs package.

-jwb