Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 15:48:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: First observations after /usr/lib restructure Message-ID: <19980528154833.A16496@freebie.lemis.com>
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I've just built a new world and kernel, and they work. That's the
good news. The not-quite-so-good news is that I had a fair amount of
difficulty to find the libraries I needed.
1. I have a number of old libraries in /usr/lib which I need for old
software (such as the XI Graphics X server, which uses
libc.so.2.2). Today's version of ldconfig refuses to even look in
/usr/lib. I had to link them into /usr/lib/aout in order to get
them to work.
2. Something else (fvwm2? Don't know, it didn't say its name)
kept complaining about a missing libgnumalloc, which is in
/usr/lib/compat. According to my /etc/sysconfig (yes, still
haven't upgraded it :-), ldconfig should look in this directory,
but ldconfig -r said it hadn't done so.
I couldn't find the messages from the startup ldconfig, of course, so
I currently don't know why it didn't include /usr/lib/compat in its
path from the beginning. In any case, I think it's rather strange of
ldconfig to refuse to scan /usr/lib. Is this because it's afraid of
elves? I wouldn't have thought they would do it any harm.
Greg
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