You're running these binaries from their compiled locations? i.e. have you
installed these?

They've been linked with a newer version of libc (and other libraries) than
you have installed then which could cause issues.

James

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>Hello,
>
>I've been struggling with a problem getting NEW_TOOLCHAIN binaries 
>working on my i386 -current machine.  Several of the userland binaries, 
>such as 'fsck', 'pstat -s', or 'ls -l' crash with a Floating Exception 
>(SIGFPE) error when built using NEW_TOOLCHAIN, but not NetBSD 1.5.2's 
>compiler package.
>
>For example, here is what ktrace shows when I tried to execute 
>'/usr/obj/bin/ls/ls -l' in a directory with a single file:
>
>   ...
>   8299 ls       NAMI  "/etc/group"
>   8299 ls       RET   open 5
>   8299 ls       CALL  __fstat13(0x5,0xbfbfd398)
>   8299 ls       RET   __fstat13 0
>   8299 ls       CALL  break(0x80a0000)
>   8299 ls       RET   break 0
>   8299 ls       CALL  lseek(0x5,0,0,0,0x1)
>   8299 ls       RET   lseek 0
>   8299 ls       CALL  lseek(0x5,0,0,0,0)
>   8299 ls       RET   lseek 0
>   8299 ls       CALL  __stat13(0x8086a1b,0xbfbfd448)
>   8299 ls       NAMI  "/etc/nsswitch.conf"
>   8299 ls       RET   __stat13 0
>   8299 ls       CALL  read(0x5,0x809e000,0x2000)
>   8299 ls       GIO   fd 5 read 317 bytes
>         ...
>         nogroup:*:32766:
>        "
>   8299 ls       RET   read 317/0x13d
>   8299 ls       PSIG  SIGFPE SIG_DFL
>   8299 ls       NAMI  "ls.core"
>
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>Plain 'ls' or 'ls -F' work fine, however.
>
>
>I am running a 1.5Y kernel from freshly updated source, without any 
>unusual options or CFLAGS.  I've built the userland utilities from 
>scratch with both 'make build' and the latest 'build.sh', and both give 
>the same problem.  When I build 'ls' using egcs-2.91.66 from the NetBSD 
>1.5.2 comp.tgz archive, it works perfectly.
>
>What am I missing when using NEW_TOOLCHAIN?  I've built the whole 
>toolchain using the version of gcc from 1.5.2's comp.tgz, but I still 
>get the floating exception.  Any ideas or suggestions?
>
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>
>Thanks,
>
>Jeff Thieleke
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