[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#563402: RFH: Bug#563402: ia32-libs broken on ia64

[dann frazier]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:30:14PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> lacking any access to ia64 I'm wondering if any porter can help with
> Bug#563402. Is there actualy something wrong in ia32-libs (and then
> what) or is merulo[1] just not capable of running 32bit x86 binaries?

It should have x86 support in hardware - but, something is certainly
wrong.

dannf at krebs:~$ file /tmp/hello
/tmp/hello: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped
dannf at krebs:~$ dpkg -l ia32-libs
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                              Version
Description
+++-=================================-=================================-==================================================================================
ii  ia32-libs                         20090808
ia32 shared libraries for use on amd64 and ia64 systems
dannf at krebs:~$ /tmp/hello
-bash: /tmp/hello: No such file or directory
dannf at krebs:~$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib32 /lib32/ld-2.9.so /tmp/hello
Hello, world!

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dann frazier