From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 27 23:18:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09674 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 May 1998 23:18:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09650 for ; Wed, 27 May 1998 23:18:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA16531; Thu, 28 May 1998 15:48:34 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980528154833.A16496@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 15:48:33 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD current users Subject: First observations after /usr/lib restructure Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message