[arch-general] cannot run pacman in different operating system

[Łukasz Nowak]

Hello Dear Archians,

I need to install arch from existing operating system.

This is Mandriva 2010.0 64 bit:

uname -a
Linux luker500 2.6.33.5-server-2mnb #1 SMP Thu Jun 17 21:11:54 UTC
2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I am using (and contributing to):
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_From_Existing_Linux

Let me show you which steps I have done so far:

$ ARCH=`uname -m`
$ echo $ARCH
x86_64
$ pwd
/home/luke/archtest
$ wget -q http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/pacman/download/
http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/pacman-mirrorlist-20100825-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/libfetch/download/
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/libarchive/download/
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/openssl/download/
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/$ARCH/xz/download/
$ ls
libarchive-2.8.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
openssl-1.0.0.a-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
pacman-mirrorlist-20100825-1-any.pkg.tar.gz
libfetch-2.33-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz     pacman-3.4.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
    xz-4.999.9beta-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
$ for f in *.tar.gz ; do tar xzf $f ; done
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/luke/archtest/usr/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/home/luke/archtest/usr/lib:
$ ls -d /home/luke/archtest/usr/lib
/home/luke/archtest/usr/lib/
$ export PATH=/home/luke/archtest/usr/bin:$PATH
$ which pacman
/home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman

So now it is time to try to run pacman:

$ pacman --help
-bash: /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman: No such file or directory

I checked, this file really exists:

$ file /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman
/home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64,
version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux
2.6.18, stripped

But I cannot even do ldd:

$ ldd /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman
/usr/bin/ldd: line 119: /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman: No such
file or directory

So additionally I checked strace output:

$ strace /home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman
execve("/home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacman",
["/home/luke/archtest/usr/bin/pacm"...], [/* 78 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
dup(2)                                  = 3
fcntl(3, F_GETFL)                       = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 33), ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0x7f3180b61000
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR)                   = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
write(3, "strace: exec: No such file or di"..., 40strace: exec: No
such file or directory
) = 40
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x7f3180b61000, 4096)            = 0
exit_group(1)                           = ?

And now I am really stuck. Is it related to my configuration or glibc
incompatibility?

What more information you need to track this issue? What shall I try,
maybe compiling pacman from source?

Regards,
Luke