glibc 2.1 on Intel

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>]

Does anyone have glibc 2.1 working on i386 Debian?  I managed to get
the source package to compile and untarred it on top of base2_0.tgz.

The chrooted environment partially works, but "dpkg-deb" doesn't work.
It fails with:

 # dpkg-deb -c libc6_2.0.95-980825-0.1_i386.deb 

 gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
 dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1

Which might be caused by a failed _llseek:

 # strace dpkg-deb -c libc6_2.0.95-980825-0.1_i386.deb 
 [...]
 read(3, "!<arch>\ndebian-binary   9071235"..., 4096) = 4096
 _llseek(0x3, 0, 0xfffff34c, 0xbffffb10, 0x1) = 2147483626
 pipe([4, 5])                            = 0
 [...]

But, the return value (from the kernel) is 7FFFFFEA, which isn't -1,
so I'm not quite sure what is going on.  (This is running with a
2.1.122 kernel, compiled against 2.1.123 includes.)


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu