From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 9: 9:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C5BF37B422 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 09:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lucas@slb.to) Received: (qmail 10634 invoked by uid 1000); 4 May 2001 16:09:28 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 11:09:28 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman To: James Egan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running old freebsd program Message-ID: <20010504110928.A7459@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: <5.1.0.14.1.20010504152249.00a57270@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20010504152249.00a57270@localhost>; from jegan@jegan.com on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:35:48PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've just installed FreeBSD 4.1 with the main aim of running an old > FreeBSD program but I can't get it to run. > > I get the error message :- > > Couldn't open /usr/libexec/ld.so. > > which isn't surprising because this file isn't there. The closest is > ld-elf.so.1 > > I looked at the manpages for elf but didn't understand much. > > What do I need to do to run old binaries like this ? (I think it was > 2.2.1 at the time it was written). The source isn't available. Use /stand/sysinstall to install the compat22 package(s). Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message