Re: SPARC v8 libc and libssl packages

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:39:14 -0700,
> Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com> wrote:
> > I forgot to tell everyone that I built libc and libssl packages for
> > potato and woody with the SPARC v8 code generator option.  I've
> > installed them on my machines with no ill effects.
> 
> unfortunately, i can't say the same thing.
> 
> after installing your libc6 and libssl, and afterwards some programs,
> but far from all, died with "Illegal Instruction" (SIGILL under strace).
> reverting to the original libc6 fixed the problem, as far as i can tell
> ATM. the speedup for ssh DSA key generation is impressive though.
> 
> platform is a dual SS20, running woody with a vger-2.4.18 kernel.

Hmm, perhaps because I built the woody ones on an Ultra2?  That really
shouldn't make any difference though, should it?  You were able to
keep the libssl installed, I take it?  Perhaps I should do some kind
of install of woody on my ss20 and see what's goin' on.

a


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