On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Rob wrote:
> >
> > Whatever you were trying to run there, you've got the wrong
> > binaries. a.out is an old binary format used in the Linux 1.2
> > and earlier days.
> >
>
> I copied all the binaries and subdirectories from XF86.org release 4.3 to a
> cd (took about 2 hours). These are the wrong binaries?
There are 3 sets of Linux binaries, each for the different
generations of C libraries. You'll want to use the
ones that matches the version of your /lib/libc-X.X.so.
Which libc do you have?
Mark.
>
> copied Xinstall.sh (from the common subdirectory) to a temporary directory
> under root (/root/jrmtemp).
>
> ran: sh Xinstall.sh -check from that temporary directory.
>
> Got an error message saying I needed "extract" or "extract.exe" in the same
> directory.
>
> found "extract" in one of the "linux-ix86-glibc2x" subdirectories (I think
> it was 23, I see now that "extract" is a different size in each of the
> subdirectories.)
>
> reran: sh Xinstall.sh -check
>
> got the a.out message, called for help.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Vojkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [XFree86] mandrake 8.1, brand new nvidia gforce, XFree86
> 4.3,..."a.out"
>
>
> > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Rob wrote:
> >
> > > "object format is a.out"
> > > "a.out no longer supported"
> >
> > Whatever you were trying to run there, you've got the wrong
> > binaries. a.out is an old binary format used in the Linux 1.2
> > and earlier days.
> >
> >
> > Mark.
> >
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