From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 19 10:51:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bogslab.ucdavis.edu (bogslab.ucdavis.edu [169.237.68.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56163155C1 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 10:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu) Received: from deal1.bogs.org (deal1.bogs.org [198.137.203.51]) by bogslab.ucdavis.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA23013 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 10:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deal1.bogs.org (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by deal1.bogs.org (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA16380 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 10:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905191751.KAA16380@deal1.bogs.org> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Couldn't open /usr/libexec/ld.so. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 00:07:15 +0900." <3742D3A2.CF9B4AAF@newsguy.com> Reply-To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:51:41 -0700 From: Greg Shenaut Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3742D3A2.CF9B4AAF@newsguy.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" cleopede: >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. Ahh--so this is a feature, not a bug. -Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message