Summary: Crack 5.0a install problems

Thanks to Michael Schulte who gave me some insight to 
my problem.  He basically told me that I was missing 
GNU binutils - see message below.  I will get this 
from the GNU website.


Note: Forwarded message attached.
Received: from vmi-ext.prodigy.net ([127.0.0.1]) by vmi-wfldad with
  ESMTP; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:43:41 -0500
Received: from babbage.cs.umsl.edu (babbage.cs.umsl.edu [134.124.30.6])
  by vmi-ext.prodigy.net
  (8.11.0.pi.sasl.milter.rejectatdoor.disable/8.11.0) with ESMTP id
  g1CNh3e214954 for <RABENOJA@prodigy.net>; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 18:43:03
  -0500
Received: from babbage.cs.umsl.edu (babbage.cs.umsl.edu [134.124.30.6])
  by babbage.cs.umsl.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA02672 for
  <RABENOJA@prodigy.net>; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:42:09 -0600 (CST)
Message-Id: <200202122342.RAA02672@babbage.cs.umsl.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:42:09 -0600 (CST)
From: Michael Schulte <mike@babbage.cs.umsl.edu>
Reply-To: Michael Schulte <mike@babbage.cs.umsl.edu>
Subject: Re: Crack 5.0a install problems
To: RABENOJA@prodigy.net
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Md5: YstIR4Ak7O7QnCv1rIH2eQ==
X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.4 SunOS 5.8 sun4u sparc 

> I am trying to install Crack 5.0a in an Ultra Enterprise 250
> running Solaris 2.8.  I modified the Crack script to use gcc, but
> I am not sure if I need to uncomment the following:
> 	#LIBS=-lcrypt # uncomment only if necessary to use stdlib
> crypt(), eg: NetBSD MD5
> 
> 	(By the way I am using NIS+ if that makes a difference)
> 
> Here are the error messages when I run "Crack - makeonly"
> 
> rules.c: In function `Uppercase':
> rules.c:100: warning: subscript has type `char'

These are just warnings (and prob. deliberate).


> /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccE8LDNb.s", line 1462: error: unknown
> opcode ".subsection"
> /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccE8LDNb.s", line 1462: error:
> statement syntax
> /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccE8LDNb.s", line 1523: error: unknown
> opcode 
> ".previous"
> /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccE8LDNb.s", line 1523: error:
> statement syntax
> /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccE8LDNb.s", line 3115: error: unknown
> opcode ".subsection"
> /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccE8LDNb.s", line 3115: error:
> statement syntax
> /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccE8LDNb.s", line 3207: error: unknown
> opcode ".previous"
> /usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/ccE8LDNb.s", line 3207: error:
> statement syntax

These errors indicate that you need to use GNU's binutil package with
   gcc.
   
---
Michael Schulte                    Specialist in Computer Science
Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis        (314) 516 5239
8001 Natural Bridge Road           schulte@cs.umsl.edu
St. Louis, MO  63121  USA          http://www.cs.umsl.edu/~schulte
_______________________________________________
sunmanagers mailing list
sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers