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- From: tfoley@camaro (Tim Foley)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: List of Broken/Fixed Binaries in 0.99 [v1.00]
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.191843.4567@camaro>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 19:18:43 GMT
- Organization: camaro
- Lines: 51
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- Below is an un-official list of programs which break under 0.99 (or 0.98.6)
- and the method to get them running again. I felt there was a great need
- for such a thing.
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- Any Changes/Suggestions/Fixes, tfoley@camaro.uucp or whome!camaro!tfoley@uucp
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- NOTE: ENSURE YOU GET THE NEW LIBC 4.2 FILE FROM YOUR LOCAL SITE
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- Revision 1.0
- Date 12/19/92 7:30pm
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- NAME STATUS FIXED METHOD OF REPAIR
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- ps Broke Yes -recompiled the ps-0.97.6.tar source
- -ps -U after installing the new ps in /usr/bin
- elm Ok? Yes -Appears to work ok
- trn Ok? Yes -Appears to work ok (needs new sed)
- emacs Ok? ??? -Appears to work ok (with new libc)
- uucp Broke Yes -recompiled the Taylor 1.03 with the -fwritable-strings in
- the makefile in addition to all other cflags and
- added the new libc.so.4.2 (MUST HAVE!)
- minicom Broke No -mini98.5.tar patches did not fix, still broke
- rz/sz ????? ??? -Status Untested
- sed Broke? Yes -Did not behave reliably, version GNU 1.09
- -Get GNU 1.13, added -dHAVE_BCOPY and removed def in
- sed.c for sys_errlist as its in errno.h
- -now works properly, fixes INEWS problem
- cnews Broke Yes -Inews shell script keeps dumping in dead.article
- -Due to SED not fully working
- mail Broke Yes -Recompiled the mailpak-1.3 mail, with -fwritable-strings in
- the makefile, remember to re-link rmail as well
- getty Broke Yes -Recompiled the 2.04 (Not 2.03) sources
- -No longer likes terminals? Had to use uugetty for
- my vt220
- uugetty Broke Yes -Recompiled the 2.04 (Not 2.03) sources
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- The new lib, libc.so.4.2 seems to solve many a problem actually.
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