Subject: bug#8960: stdbuf on bi-arch systems

From: Bruno Haible <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:47:30 +0200

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.

Bruno
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