cvsup on amd64 just broke today

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Mon Aug 9 18:54:50 PDT 2004


On 10-Aug-2004 Doug White wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> 
>> # make update
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>> Running /usr/local/bin/cvsup
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>> /usr/local/libexec/cvsup-static.i386.bin: 1: Syntax error: "("
>> unexpected
>> *** Error code 2
> 
> Can you run cvsup manually? It appears to be trying to execute a
> binary as a shell script here.

Tried that, got the same result.

I hadn't noticed it before, but it does strike me as odd that the
binary package for amd64 would include a file with "i386" in the name,
and which is, in fact, an ELF 32 binary.  Did something change today
that would effect the handling of such a file, perhaps?

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"


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