On Thursday 28 August 2003 03:53, David Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:30:57AM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:
> >David Dawes writes:
> > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:24:23AM +0200, wim delvaux wrote:
> > > >It happens when installing 4.3.0 with Xinstall.bin
> > > >
> > > >MD5 sums seems to be identical
> > > >
> > > >Does anybody know why or have the same experience ?
> > >
> > > We occasionally see reports like this, but I don't recall if the
> > > reason for the problem was found. The extract binary for Linux is
> > > statically linked. Maybe we need dynamically linked versions?
> >
> >Yes, I think that's the problem. Statically linked libc's are not
> >really static any more as they pull in shared modules. This seems
> >to be causing trouble.
>
> I can build a glibc22-based dynamically linked version (don't have any
> glibc23 systems here at the moment) and put that up for both the glibc22
> and glibc23 bindists if that would help.
I had that problem too and just downloaded the utils in source and compiled
the gnu-tar util.
W
>
> David
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