SOLVED (mostly) Re: odd behaviour of some programs on i386 cross-built from amd64

2020-05-09 Thread Greg A. Woods
So, I can now report I've been a victim of my own aging eyes and clumsiness. :-) In summary the problem was due to accidentally typing an errant character in a source file while browsing it (sometime back in February), and worse yet I saved it without knowing I had done so, and further having the

Re: odd behaviour of some programs on i386 cross-built from amd64

2020-05-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:05:10 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: odd behaviour of some programs on i386 cross-built from amd64 > > I guess now I'll have to dig into my local kernel changes to see what > might be incompatible with a 32-bit system. Maybe I can also t

Re: odd behaviour of some programs on i386 cross-built from amd64

2020-04-28 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Mon, 27 Apr 2020 21:17:04 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: Re: odd behaviour of some programs on i386 cross-built from amd64 > > One of the kernels seems to be the same too, assuming one takes into > account the obvious difference in vers.o: > >textdat

Re: odd behaviour of some programs on i386 cross-built from amd64

2020-04-27 Thread Greg A. Woods
At Wed, 22 Apr 2020 21:08:46 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote: Subject: odd behaviour of some programs on i386 cross-built from amd64 > > # od > od: "8/2 " %06o " "\n"": bad format > # file /usr/bin/od > /usr/bin/od:

odd behaviour of some programs on i386 cross-built from amd64

2020-04-22 Thread Greg A. Woods
I decided to try upgrading some little Soekris boxes recently. At the moment I only have amd64 build machines, so I did a cross-build targeting i386. Note that my source tree is somewhat dated, at about 8.99.32, but I've been running this code without problem on a number of amd64 machines (mostly