From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 19 8:15:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 412B414D32 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 08:15:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id AAA14336; Thu, 20 May 1999 00:10:39 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3742D3A2.CF9B4AAF@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 00:07:15 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Couldn't open /usr/libexec/ld.so. References: <199905181750.KAA12909@deal1.bogs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Shenaut wrote: > > >The netscape binary is a.out format. You need to install the FreeBSD a.out > >compat libraries and dynamic linker/loader as well as the a.out versions of > >the X libraries. > > Isn't this sort of dependency supposed to be handled automagically? No. The ports system deal with dependency on other ports, not dependencies on old and deprecated versions of FreeBSD. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message