From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 01:36:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3265116A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:36:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C231043D2F for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:36:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i8H1afWC067028; Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:36:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:36:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Roger Williams Message-ID: <20040917013641.GH29528@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA3 X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared object "libc.so.3" not found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:36:42 -0000 In the last episode (Sep 16), Roger Williams said: > Hello, > Why can I no longer put in the compat3, compat4 stuff? Some of my older > programs are crashing since the upgrade to 4.10. You can still install compat3x if you comment out the "FORBIDDEN" line in the port Makefile. The reason it's forbidden is there were some security vulnerabilities posted that affected 3.x, but the 3.x tree is so old that it's no longer being updated. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com