Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:31:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finding a.out shared libraries (was: Netscape no longer works with ELF system) Message-ID: <19980926123105.A20205@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199809260256.VAA08873@gforce.bellsouth.net>; from Glenn Johnson on Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 09:56:19PM -0500 References: <grog@lemis.com> <199809260256.VAA08873@gforce.bellsouth.net>
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On Friday, 25 September 1998 at 21:56:19 -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: >> On Friday, 25 September 1998 at 11:28:36 -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: >>> I have just brought up an entirely ELF system, including all ports. I do not >>> have any aout libraries built for ports, including XFree86. >>> >>> When I launch netscape now I get the following: >>> >>> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libXt.so.6.0" >>> >>> What should I do? >>> >>> The library is in /usr/X11R6/lib. I made a symlink of libXt.so.6 to >>> libXt.so.6.0, ie., ln -sf libXt.so.6 libXt.so.6.0, but that did not work. >> >> I'm not sure that the numerous replies have answered your question. >> One thing you should know is that ldconfig now requires an -aout flag >> to set the paths for a.out libraries. If you haven't updated your >> /etc/rc, you should do so (it doesn't get installed automatically with >> a make world). Alternatively, you can run ldconfig something like >> this: >> >> # ldconfig -aout /usr/lib/aout /usr/local/lib /usr/X11R6/lib > > But I don't have the aout libs on this machine. Well, I suppose that's the problem :-) As long as you have a.out executables, you'll need the a.out libraries. > Netscape works fine on machines that I have updated because it finds > the aout libs in /usr/X11R6/lib/aout, but that is not the case with > a fresh installation of 3.0Beta with ELFised ports. Right. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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