On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Rob McKibben wrote:
> > >
> > > /lib/libc-2.2.4.so
> >
> > I believe that means you want to get all your binaries
> > from the /pub/XFree86/4.3.0/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc22 directory.
>
> Did that already while I was waiting for a response.
>
> Actually I copied "Xinstall.so" and "extract", from each of the
> /pub/...glibc2x directories one at a time and ran them.
>
> Everytime it responds with:
>
> Checking which OS you're running . . .
> uname reports 'Linux' version '2.4.8-26mdk', architecture 'i686'
> object format is 'a.out'
> Linux a.out is no longer supported
>
> The following two lines are in my error file after running sh
> Xinstall.so -check 2> jrmerror
>
> Xinstall.sh: file: command not found
> Xinstall.sh: strings: command not found
>
> Should I try to run Xinstall anyway, from library #22, and hope that it
> overwrites whatever is forcing a.out?
From looking at the install script it seems to determine
whether or not you have an a.out or elf system by running
file on /bin/sh. It looks like the failure case is a.out.
The messages above make it sound like you don't have file or
strings on your system which would explain why the a.out vs.
elf detection is failing. Do you really not have file or
strings? They are unix standard utilities and are usually
in /usr/bin. If you don't have file, it makes sense that
Xinstall's elf detection would fail. I don't think I've
heard of a Linux distribution not having file or strings.
Mark.
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