On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Wm. G. McGrath wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:40:26 +0100
>
> I have utilities called cmospwd and cmosdump that will read the
> bios. They compile and run on other linux boxes. But when I try and
> run them from a second floppy mounted as /mnt in Tom's - nothing. I
> can see the files with ls, but trying to run it in /mnt as ./cmospwd
> does nothing - "filename": not found. ??? Obviously I've overlooked
> something or Tom's disk is a little different. Have you any ideas?
tomsrtbt uses libc5 not libc6 like most big linuxes. If you compile your
tools with the -static option you should have better luck; though the
programs will be huge.
If you want to compile something with libc5 you either need an _old_
version of linux (eg debian 1.3) or possibly Debian's altgcc package.
If you just want a smaller libc for static executables you can use
uclibc. NB: I wouldn't be surprised if Tom switches to uclibc at some
point as it's getting more and more difficult to get working libc5
development tools.
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
