realaudio frequently coredumps

[David Banning]

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 09:25:29PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> 
> David Banning wrote:
> >>I'm using realaudio versions 8 and 9, which both coredump frequently.
> >>The crash seems to happen when the speed of the connection goes down,
> >>which, of course should not be a reason for coredumping :).
> >>
> >>I'm just wondering whether this is indeed a bug in realaudio, or it
> >>is a bug in the linux module on Freebsd.
> >>
> >>I'm using linux_base-7.1_3 and FreeBSD 4.8 on a intel PC.
> > 
> > 
> > Did you check the brandelf status?
> 
> Aha, never heard of this 'brandelf' thing.
> So I have opera-6.12.20030305 and linux-realplayer-8.cs2_2
> installed via the ports; both are linux versions.
> 
> When I do 'brandelf' on these executbles, I get:
> 
> File '/usr/local/share/opera/bin/opera' is of brand 'FreeBSD' (9)
> 
> File '/usr/local/bin/realplay' is of brand 'SVR4' (0).
> 
> Is this wrong?
> I would expect that a portinstall fixes this on the fly.
> 
> Must I do manually
> 
> # brandelf -t Linux /usr/local/share/opera/bin/opera
> # brandelf -t Linux /usr/local/bin/realplay
> 
> after the portinstall ?

You shouldn't have to. I get the problem myself from time to time
and I don't know why. I imagine there is a way to get to the root
cause of why they are brandelf'd  wrong, but since it is quick to
just re-brandelf it, I have never looked into it.