On 29/06/11 21:47, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi, > > The program 'stdbuf' on bi-arch x86 / x86_64 systems cannot work on all kinds > of programs. > > I'm using 'stdbuf' from coreutils-8.12 on a glibc x86 / x86_64 system. > > The binary built for x86 cannot be called on x86_64 programs: > > $ /arch/x86-linux/gnu/bin/stdbuf -o 0 /bin/pwd > ERROR: ld.so: object '/arch/x86-linux/gnu/lib/coreutils/libstdbuf.so' from > LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. > /home/bruno > > The binary built for x86_64 cannot be called on x86 programs: > > $ /arch/x86_64-linux/gnu/bin/stdbuf -o 0 /arch/x86-linux/gnu/bin/pwd > ERROR: ld.so: object '/arch/x86_64-linux/gnu/lib64/coreutils/libstdbuf.so' > from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored. > /home/bruno > > I would like to have a single binary that works on both x86 and x86_64 > programs.
Hmm, I haven't look at this, but it seems like if stdbuf sets both LD_PRELOAD_32 and LD_PRELOAD_64 to the appropriate libstdbuf.so, it should just work. However these libs would be in separate builds so I need to look into, how best to support this. cheers, Pádraig.