Bug#553047: libc6: (cross) libc-2.10.1.so/powerpc: ELF file data encoding not little-endian

[Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.9-27
Severity: normal


Hello,

  While building a cross compiler gcc-4.4 i386->powerpc, i get the following error:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:}/usr/powerpc-linux-gnu/lib ARCH=powerpc MAKEFLAGS="CC=something" dh_shlibdeps -plibgcc1-powerpc-cross

error while loading shared libraries: /usr/powerpc-linux-gnu/lib/libc.so.6: ELF file data encoding not little-endian

Watching the file:

$ file /usr/powerpc-linux-gnu/lib/libc-2.10.1.so 
/usr/powerpc-linux-gnu/lib/libc-2.10.1.so: ELF 32-bit MSB shared object, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, with unknown capability 0x41000000 = 0x13676e75, with unknown capability 0x10000 = 0xb0401, stripped


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libc-bin                      2.9-27     GNU C Library: Binaries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.1-6  GCC support library

libc6 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libc6 suggests:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.27     Debian configuration management sy
pn  glibc-doc                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  locales                       2.9-27     GNU C Library: National Language (

-- debconf information:
  glibc/upgrade: true
  glibc/disable-screensaver:
  glibc/restart-failed:
* glibc/restart-services: cron