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Date:      Sun, 17 Oct 2004 21:17:04 +0900
From:      Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>
To:        Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg and libm.so.2
Message-ID:  <417262C0.2030201@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <11654.64.39.177.196.1097937070.squirrel@64.39.177.196>
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Steve Bertrand wrote:
>>albi wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>I have just installed 5.3b7, and after installing Xorg, I get the
>>>>following error:
>>>>
>>>>/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared obj "libm.so.2" not found, required by
>>>>"Xorg"
>>>>
>>>>I found in google that certain libs have been upgraded, and indeed,
>>>>I
>>>>do have libm.so.3 in the /lib dir.
>>>>
>>>>Can I tell Xorg that it should use .3, and if so, how.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>ln -s /lib/libm.so.3 /lib/libm.so.2 worked for me
>>>
>>>
>>
>>A better way would be to recompile Xorg from ports against the new
>>library. Make sure you remove the symlink. Or if you don't want to
>>build
>>a new Xorg use /etc/libmap.conf instead of symlink hacks.
> 
> 
> Thank you for the info everyone...
> 
> I did find someone else (google) that used libmap.conf, however, my
> newly installed system does not have this file. Can someone please
> provide a sample of what a line in this file looks like, for my
> particular issue above?

Have a look at the manpage libmap.conf(5).

Rob.




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