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Date:      Wed, 19 May 1999 10:51:41 -0700
From:      Greg Shenaut <greg@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Couldn't open /usr/libexec/ld.so. 
Message-ID:  <199905191751.KAA16380@deal1.bogs.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 00:07:15 %2B0900." <3742D3A2.CF9B4AAF@newsguy.com> 

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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


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