Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:38:18 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1-RELEASE: discrepancies between "sysinstall" and "make world" results Message-ID: <36D66B8A.13D6F8A5@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <5572.919995328@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
> > these libraries go into /usr/lib/aout. Some packages (such as
> > netscape-4.08) fails to install under a "sysinstalled" 3.1R system
> > because the package installer checks for the presence of the a.out
> > libraries under /usr/lib/aout.
>
> Hmmm. Modulo the information already spelled out in the ERRATA, I
> didn't have this problem.
>
You are right about the Netscape problem, but... in any case,
there is a difference between the "sysinstall" and the "make world".
In /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.own.mk (v1.21), lines 143-146:
.if ${OBJFORMAT} == aout
LIBDIR?= /usr/lib/aout
.else
LIBDIR?= /usr/lib
.endif
But these libraries are installed under /usr/lib/compat/aout by
sysinstall.
BTW, the URL http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.1/errata.html (mentioned
in ERRATA.TXT) does not exist.
> > Another problem: the 3.1R sysinstall does not populate the /usr/mdec
> > directory; however, a "make world" does.
>
> /usr/mdec is dead; if make world is still sticking stuff there, it's
> probably broken.
>
I don't use /usr/mdec at all, but I was told that some of its files
are needed by PicoBSD. As I have not [yet] used PicoBSD, I am not
sure that this problem actually exists.
-- JMA
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