As John Polstra wrote ...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Kenneth D. Merry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I take it you haven't rebuilt world in the past few months? There was a
> > change that went in in June, I think, that requires that you reinstall
> > ld-elf.so.1 manually before you can buildworld on an Alpha. Kinda
> > annoying, I think.
>
> Annoying but unavoidable. There's no way to override the location of
> the dynamic linker at make world time, for security-related reasons.
> An important bugfix to the Alpha binutils required an updated dynamic
> linker to handle the new relocation type. The new dynamic linker was
> committed well before the binutils changes that required it. But
> still it can bite people who aren't tracking -current very closely.
> That's life in currentland.
The ld-elf.so.1 trick was indeed the problem. My previous build was indeed
somewhere in June.
Thanks for your suggestion.
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