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Date:      Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:07:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      Spike <spork@startrekmail.com>
To:        "Wayne M. Barnes" <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>
Cc:        stable mailing list at FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Upgrading from 2.2.6 to 3.1 (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902161406340.374-100000@nyc-ny73-27.ix.netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <199902161851.MAA01573@barnes1.wustl.edu>

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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Wayne M. Barnes wrote:

> Dear Mr. Bahwi,
> 
>    You can expect a lot of trouble with messages like
> > ./netscape
> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libXt.so.6.0"

That would probably mean you need to make your a.out libraries known to
the system with ldconfig- "ldconfig -aout /usr/lib/aout/
/usr/X11R6/lib/aout ...."

> 
>    This happens even though ls shows the existence of the library:
> 
> >/usr/X11R6/lib>ls -laF libXt.*
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  wheel  341022 Feb  5 15:23 libXt.a
> lrwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel      10 Feb  5 15:23 libXt.so@ -> libXt.so.6
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  291585 Feb  5 15:23 libXt.so.6*
> lrwxrwxr-x  1 root  wheel      10 Feb 16 11:03 libXt.so.6.0@ -> libXt.so.6
> 
> Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D.                        wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu
> Biochemistry Dept. 8231
> Washington Univ. Medical School               314.362.3351  fax 7183
> 660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
>           http://barnes1.wustl.edu       Just plain Taq is old tech anymore.
> 
>    This happens even though netscape was freshly built with the aid
> of port-current.  
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from bahwi -----
> 
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Upgrading from 2.2.6 to 3.1
> Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902152018210.88596-100000@localhost>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> (Sorry for the cross-posting, please reply privately)
> What should I expect to do from upgrading a 2.2.6 system to a 3.1-STABLE
> system? What types of problems, etc? We have various a.out binaries that
> we can not get an ELF version for, will they still work? Any other
> information would be much appreciated. Thank you. Please reply privately.
> 
> ----- End of forwarded message from bahwi -----
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> 


	-Spike Gronim
	 sporkl@ix.netcom.com	


		The majority only rules those who let them. 

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