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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 14:06:08 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Cc: "Fernando P. Schapachnik" <fschapac@dc.uba.ar>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Problems compiling DDD 2.1.1 from the ports.
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On Sun, Sep 07, 1997 at 09:21:37PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 09:58:11AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>>> Look in the Makefiles below /usr/src/ports/devel/ddd.
>>>
>>> I don't have /usr/src/ports. I only have /usr/ports/distfiles.
>>
>> I'd be curious as to how you built the port, then.  This might be your
>> problem.  You *should* have a directory /usr/src/ports/devel/ddd with
>
> Actually the standard place to find the DDD port files are in
> /usr/ports/devel/ddd.

Mea culpa.  I didn't check.  In fact, if you have the sources on line,
it's /usr/src/ports, but /usr/ports is a symlink to /usr/src/ports.
In other words, they're the same thing.

>>> By downloading the libc.so.3.0 you offered me I was able to compile, but
>>> ddd hanged at startup.
>>> Then I 'ln' libc.so.3.0 to libc.so.2.2, and it worked!
>
> With out knowing the previous emails, I'll go out on a limb and say this
> is dangerous.

Right.  I've had enough crashes as the result of a blown libc.so that
I would be *very* careful about changing things.

> DDD should build on an out of the box 2.1.7.1 system.
> However, if you aren't using the stock GCC, then all bets are off.
>
> I'd suggest trying to build ddd on a stock, right off the CD install of
> FreeBSD.

Are you sure he didn't?

Greg