Re: ppc64

At 03:05 09.06.2003, [email protected] wrote:
>On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Balint Cristian wrote:
>
> > A asure you too from my ibook:
> >
> > [root@ibook FILMS]# rpm -qa | grep glibc
> > glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.17
> > glibc-common-2.3.2-48
> > glibc-devel-2.3.2-48
> > glibc-2.3.2-48
> > [root@ibook FILMS]# telnet rezso.rdsor.ro 22
> > Trying 212.93.155.178...
> > telnet: connect to address 212.93.155.178: Connection refused
> > [root@ibook FILMS]# telnet ftp.redhat.com 21
> > Trying 66.187.232.51...
> > Connected to ftp.redhat.com.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 Red Hat FTP server ready. All transfers are logged. (FTP)
> > ^]
> > telnet> quit
> > Connection closed.
>
>         Okay... the only thing that I see is that I'm still at glibc -45
>and not -48.
>
> > > though (with the file command), it is merely a 32-bit program and so are
> > > the libraries.  I guess it's some other bug that was introduced.
> > >     mod_webapp is also having trouble.
> >
> > I think you missed something ?belive me i have _NO_ problems on my ibook.
>
>         Okay... Now where the heck is the problem then?  Very strange.
>I'll have to screw around a bit and see if I can find out what the heck is
>causing this!  ARGE!

I would think this is either caused by a kernel/glibc mismatch due to NPTL 
or some packages being miscompiled/misoptimized now since the switch to 
gcc-3.3. I for myself have verified that mozilla-1.4 breaks on PPC if 
compiled by gcc-3.3.

Franz.