#426999 makeself: fails to run on different architecture

Package:
makeself
Source:
makeself
Submitter:
Date:
2015-07-01 08:30:29 UTC
Severity:
normal
#426999#5
Date:
2007-06-01 07:43:56 UTC
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I'm building an image on i386 (little endian) and running it on big
endian arm. This is failing though.

Creating the image:

[ 5:42PM] hamish@snake:oboe/utils/fwmgr $ dash /usr/bin/makeself img
bl.run bootloader installboot
Header is 375 lines long

WARNING: Overwriting existing file: bl.run
About to compress 4144 KB of data...
Adding files to archive named "bl.run"...
./
./ramdisk.gz
./zImage
./installboot
CRC: 1373132883
MD5: 9e2c27a8a140411b558566d636f86cf4

Self-extractible archive "bl.run" successfully created.
[ 5:42PM] hamish@snake:oboe/utils/fwmgr $ md5sum bl.run
be6dc69e124bbd9307b10301a7962b51  bl.run
[ 5:42PM] hamish@snake:oboe/utils/fwmgr $ sh bl.run
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing bootloader....
bl.run: line 365: installboot: command not found

(Extracted ok although the script was missing; not to worry.)

Now copy it to my target and run it;

# md5sum bl.run
be6dc69e124bbd9307b10301a7962b51  bl.run
# sh bl.run
Verifying archive integrity...Error in MD5 checksums:
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e is different from 9e2c27a8a140411b558566d636f86cf4



Hamish
#426999#10
Date:
2007-06-04 00:02:27 UTC
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This doesn't seem to be a cross architecture thing after all. A
.run created on amd64/unstable runs ok on ppc/sarge
(brucker.debian.org).

My target is running busybox for its shell, coreutils etc which may be
the cause.

I'll keep investigating,

Hamish
#426999#15
Date:
2008-03-08 14:23:36 UTC
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Hello.

I tried to reproduce that bug on SPARC which is AFAIK big endian and had no
luck.

Does it still exist in 2.1.5 version?

regards
fEnIo