Many of us still depend on WP8. There are functions that it performs
well that at this point are unsupported by other applications. There
are also no doubt other old a.out binaries out there that people depend
on. Hopefully it gets fixed.
-George Mitchell
Marcel Pol wrote:
>With current cooker it seems theres a problem with WordPerfect8.
>It reports a bus error now.
>I know its proprietary software, and its not a priority for Mandrake, but it would be
>nice if it was fixed. A lot of people still use Wp8.
>
>I have installed libc5 and the /lib/ld-linux.so1 from ld.so-1.9.11-4mdk.
>
>Heres a strace:
>
>strace /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp
>execve("/opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp", ["/opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0
>old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
>0x40007000
>mprotect(0x40000000, 21868, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
>mprotect(0x8048000, 7298408, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
>stat("/etc/ld.so.cache", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=63248, ...}) = 0
>open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
>old_mmap(NULL, 63248, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40008000
>close(3) = 0
>stat("/etc/ld.so.preload", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
>open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = 3
>old_mmap(NULL, 1, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40018000
>close(3) = 0
>--- SIGBUS (Bus error) ---
>+++ killed by SIGBUS +++
>
>And an ldd:
>ldd /opt/wp8/wpbin/xwp
>/usr/bin/ldd: line 1: 1652 Bus error LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1
>LD_WARN= LD_BIND_NOW= LD_LIBRARY_VERSION=$verify_out LD_VERBOSE= "$file"
>
>
>--
>Marcel Pol
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Linux 2.4.16-10mdksmp, up 23:35, 2 users
>
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