Re: glibc 2.1 on Intel
On Thu, 01 Oct 1998, Steve Dunham wrote:
>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.)
That's EINVAL which is documented on the llseek man page as "whence is
invalid.
>
>
>Steve
>dunham@cse.msu.edu
>
>
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