Re: Anyone try XF86-4.0 yet?

["B. James Phillippe" <bryan terran org>]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, W Bauske wrote:

> > > "B. James Phillippe" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I had problems installing it; the "extract" binary on the FTP
> > > > server doesn't work - it seems to be corrupt or not in a standard
> > > > ELF format or something.
> > ...
> > > As for the 'extract' program, my guess is it's probably an intel
> > > binary.
> > 
> > No, it isn't:
> > 
> > % file tmp/extract.bad
> > tmp/extract.bad: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha (unofficial), version 1,
> > dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> > % ldd tmp/extract.bad
> > /usr/bin/ldd: tmp/extract.bad: No such file or directory
> > %
> > 
> > There is something else wrong with it.
> > 
> 
> Try "ldd binary_name" on it. Probably missing some shared lib.

It was included in my post.  I've used nm and objdump to see that this is
indeed an ELF object file with the usual sections.  But it must be linked
against some other kind of library for ldd to fail.  I got this from the
Linux-alpha-glibc21 directory on ftp.xfree86.org.

Hey there!  Seems this file was replaced on the xfree server just last
night at almost midnight.  So the XFree guys heard my plight, perhaps.  The
new binary works. :-)

thanks,
-bp
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