From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 12:21:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C0C1065671 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:21:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0558FC28; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:21:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <47F0D75D.2080801@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:21:49 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Niels Kobschaetzki References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libc.so.6 not found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:21:46 -0000 Niels Kobschaetzki wrote: > Hi! > > I have here severe problems with installing stuff. I tried to > recompile xemacs 21.4 and got a: > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by > "install-info" > I searched google and it seems that this is from FreeBSD 6 while I am > running 7 and I have only libc.so.7 on my system. > I wondered, tried to compile xemacs 21.5 from the sources and ran into > some other trouble. I figured that I'll do a a cvsup with FreeBSD > 7.0-stable and do a portupgrade -ra to do an upgrade for all packages; > hoping that the trouble wents away and I get some kind of xemacs with > mule-support installed. But the portupgrade ran into some problems > because of a stale dependency (ORBit2-2.14.10 -> libIDL-0.8.9_1 > (devel/libIDL). > I want to install now this stale dependency and get the same error: > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by > "install-info" > > Anyone who can help here? I guess you missed part of the upgrade steps when you updated to 7.0. The step you missed involved a portupgrade -fa (or -faP) to refresh all of your ports with 7.0 versions to avoid precisely this problem. You should do that now to repair your system. Kris