From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 25 20:01:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA09602 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA09597 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:01:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA01539; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:31:10 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA20216; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:31:05 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980926123105.A20205@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:31:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Glenn Johnson Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finding a.out shared libraries (was: Netscape no longer works with ELF system) References: <199809260256.VAA08873@gforce.bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199809260256.VAA08873@gforce.bellsouth.net>; from Glenn Johnson on Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 09:56:19PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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