From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 12 10:39:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from scrabble.freeuk.net (scrabble.freeuk.net [212.126.144.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E6314E30 for ; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 10:39:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from [212.126.149.114] (helo=cream.org) by scrabble.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 2.11 #1) id 10srky-00072q-00 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jun 1999 17:39:48 +0000 Content-Length: 1055 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 18:36:57 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Boothman To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: compat22 / ld.so - FAQ Addition Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings! I've noticed that questions- frequently gets many people asking about "ld.so" problems that they've had since upgrading to 3.x from 2.2.x and the answer to their problem is almost always the same. Therefore I'd like to make sure that the following information is accurate before I submit it to the docproj. Thanks! 500a501,511 > > > I've upgraded from 2.2.x to 3.x and now I get ld.so errors >

3.x FreeBSD systems by default use a different binary format from the > 2.2.x systems. For this reason, when upgrading, the libraries that were > used to execute the old 2.2.x binaries are upgraded so that you can > execute the new 3.x binaries. > >

If you need to execute 2.2.x binaries on a 3.x system you should > install the 'compat22' port in /usr/ports/compat22/ which > will install the old 2.2.x libraries. --- Andrew Boothman http://sour.cream.org Unmetered Telecoms. Join the Fight! http://www.unmetered.org.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message