As was reported here before binutils versions 2.11.90.0.7 and 2.11.90.0.8 have a bug on hppa that causes binutils to generates broken executables. The bug is also viral in nature in that if you build with shared libraries built with the broken binutils, even if the broken binutils is not installed, the resulting executables will still be broken.
Unforturately the Debian autobuilder built and uploaded binutils 2.11.90.0.7-1 so you may have "infected" your system if you did an apt-get upgrade. Also several Debian developers had done so and then uploaded packages built with the bad binutils. Right now we are recommending that people revert to 2.11.90.0.1 available at, ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/debian/ newcompilers-20010326/binutils_2.11.90.0.1-1_hppa.deb Paul Bame has written a script you can run to check and see if your system has any bad debs installed. Its available at, ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/tools/plt-checker Lamont Jones is working on scanning all the hppa packages in the Debian archive to come up with a list of what packages are broken. Once he has the list we will work on getting them all rebuilt cleanly and uploaded. Until they have all been rebuilt/uploaded, DO NOT APT-GET UPGRADE, you will infect your system. When everything is done and we've confirmed that the archive is clean, someone will announce it's ok to proceed. Thanks, -- Matt Taggart Linux Development Lab [EMAIL PROTECTED] HP Linux Systems Operation
