Paul,
        what type of solaris hardware are you running on? Is this an older
machine?

I've seen this (exact error) when linking or compiling with openssl,
which would like to use assembler and/or C compiler options optimised
for the latest or current hardware platform. This means the resulting
binary doesn't work on earlier hardware platforms. (There are SPARC
v6,v7,v8,v9 chips, for example - the 'ultra' label starts at v8 I
think). You can imagine this as i386,i486,i586 and having something try
and compile for pentium then run on 486 - doesn't work too well..

This could be an autoconf issue when making flags for curl, or maybe you
linked with a static openssl libcrypto.a etc that you downloaded as a
binary? Do the openssl command line tools work OK? (Assuming you're
trying to build with openssl at all...)

The 'file' command on solaris will tell you what binary version a
program is compiled for.

Cris

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, Paul Harrington wrote:
>
> > I am still having problems compiling Beta 4 I'm still getting:
> >
> > curl: cannot execute binary file
>
> Can you build other programs on this machine? Can you mail me (or stash them
> on a web site) your configure output, config.h and config.log? (if you mail,
> do it privately, they're probably quite big)
>
> Can you try running './configure --disable-shared' and see if that makes
> anything different?
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl groks URLs -- http://curl.haxx.se/
Received on 2001-09-13