Re: pkg/46788: memtestplus does not boot stand-alone on amd64

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46788; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/46788: memtestplus does not boot stand-alone on amd64
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:59:21 -0700 (PDT)

 On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Paul Goyette wrote:
 
 > On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Paul Goyette wrote:
 >
 >> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, OBATA Akio wrote:
 >> 
 >>> On my NetBSD-5.1(amd64)
 >>> 166180 memtestplus
 >>> 164504 memtestplus.bin
 >>> So two binaries should be almost same size.
 >>> 
 >>> I don't know why but I feel that just your `memtestplus.new' is too big 
 >>> (and broken?)
 >> 
 >> I don't know why, either.  But this is a clean, default remake of the 
 >> package, from scratch.
 >> 
 >> I would be happy to provide the entire log from 'make install' if it would 
 >> help.
 >
 > One more point of information:
 >
 > The old 'memtestplus' image is the same version as the newer broken images. 
 > Both are
 >
 >      # strings /memtestplus | grep 'test86 '
 >            Memtest86  v4.20
 >
 > so whatever the problem is, it would seem to be a change in the pkgsrc build 
 > environment, and not in memtest itself.
 
 And yet one more potentially useful datum.
 
 Looking at the binary pre-built packages on ftp.netbsd.org, I find the 
 same "size problem" with the amd64 package.  Yet the i386 package of the 
 same vintage appears correct, with both files very close in size.
 
 So is it maybe a problem on amd64, trying to build a 32-bit package?
 
 
 
 
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