Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:21:09 +1100 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Dimitri Yioulos <dyioulos@firstbhph.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lib Errors After 6.3 - 7 Update Message-ID: <20080305222109.025f4721@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <47CE4925.5070204@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <284486.87640.qm@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200803041616.45633.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> <20080305131502.59aa7023@meijome.net> <47CE4925.5070204@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:17:57 +0000
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> Umm... Using libmap.conf in this way is functionally equivalent to
> sym-linking the shlibs and is just as evil. If an app needs libc.so.5
> then the only correct answer is to give it libc.so.5 by installing
> compat5x.
of course it is as evil if do it carelessly, but it's a more controlled
sym-linking of forms, as you can tell it that a certain symlink only applies to
one application and not all of them. probably doesn't really apply to this
example, but, from my experience, it is far better than symlinking.
>
> libmap.conf has its uses, but one of the primary reasons for having it
> -- switching between different threading implementations -- is a non-issue
> on 7.0 where you get libthr style threads as standard. I think there
> may be one or two ports that advise you to make specific libmap.conf
> settings, but unless you've installed one of those, you really should
> not need a libmap.conf at all.
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