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From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Quake Server
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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Dan Nelson wrote:

>Assuming you have the newest linux_lib package installed (with
>libc.so.5.3.12 and libm.5.0.6 or later), no. :)  That's basically the

Yup, got those :

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  705995 Oct 25 20:51 libc.so.5.3.12
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   36084 Oct 25 20:51 libm.so.5.0.6

>only thing that could affect quake.  Unless -current has changed how
>linux-elf binaries are run.  Has elfbrand made it into the code base
>yet?  Will a linux executable get this far unbranded?

Me dunno.

>it and running gdb on it.  See if the crash was in a library or in
>quake code.

gdb is available on FreeBSD - tried it, and it came up with :    

GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
 under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
GDB 4.13 (i386-unknown-freebsd), Copyright 1994 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
Core was generated by `xquake'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x803faff in ?? ()
(gdb) quit

On a Slackware machine, I got

GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
 under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
GDB 4.14 (i486-slackware-linux), Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.

"/users/k/kh/khetan/xquake.core" is not a core dump: File format not
recognized
(gdb) quit


Hope this helps,


--khg