From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 6 12:47:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fosburgh.dyndns.org (Dorm-36314.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.141.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4803614BF9 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 12:47:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by fosburgh.dyndns.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA06643; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:45:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:45:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.a Invalid format In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 6 Apr 1999, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Philippe CASIDY writes: > > > On 6 Apr, [Here was data encoded in koi8-r, which can not be displayed] wrote: > > > Try to make it from ports (pkg_delete xemacs befor from ur system) > > > > I install from package from the first CDRom. First, I made a pkg_delete > > to uninstall the 228R package and install the 31R using pkg_add. > > Xemacs-20.4 is not available as a port on the WCreek cdroms. > > Okay, just to make sure it makes it into the archives: > You can't install 3.x packages on a 2.x system. Read below in the section you quoted to get this in the archives. > > [At least, not without doing some rather extensive upgrades -- > extensive enough that if you'd done them, you would know enough that > you wouldn't need to ask this question.] > > It's always a chancy thing to install packages from a different > FreeBSD version, but it's downright impossible in this case. > > Be well. > > [and to make searches find the error message in this message] > >> I have just upgrade from 228R to 31R. When trying to start Xemacs (from 3.1-R is running on the system in question. When I was getting the error, it was while running 3.1-R packages on a 3.1-R system. I think an upgrade to 3.1-STABLE is needed to fix this but I do not know for sure if that is what fixed it for me. > >> 228R), I have the following message : > >> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.a Invalid format > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message