Alpha is seriously broken

Doug Rabson dfr at nlsystems.com
Fri Aug 20 03:53:10 PDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 11:18, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a JFYI that recent Alphas (I don't know if it's a
> kernel or libc) are seriously broken.
> 
> Wilko brought an issue in my face that a make(1) binary
> on his "a couple days ago" development box is dumping a
> core.  I logged in to beast.FreeBSD.org only to find out
> the same, and also that cc(1) is dumping core as well
> when I try to compile a dummy source file:

That looks a lot like rtld is failing. The code I committed last Sunday
should only have affected static binaries and threaded programs. I
intentionally committed the rtld code weeks ago to give it a decent
testing time before the code freeze.

Was beast working ok with a world built before Sunday?




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