Re: compiler issues and some booboos

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Craig Brozefsky wrote:
> 
> Just installed Debian Sparc on my ultra1 and upgraded to tater.  I
> have run into some problems which I cannot find any solutions to:
> 
> 1. fdisk is missing from tater.  It is not in the sparc version of
>    util-linux, and there does appear to be a "fdisk" package like
>    there was in slink.

I already filed a bug against util-linux 2.9w.  Wait next upload...

> 2. grep is failing with messages like:
> 
> grep: guile-core_1.3.4-0.diff.gz: Bad address
> grep: guile-core_1.3.4-0.dsc: Bad address
> grep: guile-core_1.3.4-0_sparc.changes: Bad address
> grep: guile-core_1.3.4.orig.tar.gz: Bad address
> grep: guile1.3_1.3.4-0_sparc.deb: Bad address
> grep: libguile6-dev_1.3.4-0_sparc.deb: Bad address
> grep: libguile6-slib_1.3.4-0_sparc.deb: Bad address
> grep: libguile6_1.3.4-0_sparc.deb: Bad address
> 
> making grep useless.  I tried recompiling from source but it made no
> difference at all.

Until I installed grep 2.3-5 from potato I got the same errors.
However it was fixed in this version, maybe only on old sparc ? In fact, I'm
running Debian on a SparcClassic.

Regards.

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