Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:44:56 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btw - Re: whither libtermcap? (fallout of libc dance) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102231144080.23814-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20010223114017.A73524@mollari.cthul.hu>
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> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:29:12AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:23:23AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > > The problem is that libtermcap.so, still hanging around, is used by things > > > > that don't usually get rebuilt in a buildworld/installworld run (like X11 > > > > tools like xterm)- and attempts to use such things yield: > > > > > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Feb 23 00:55 /usr/lib/libtermcap.a -> libncurses.a > > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Feb 23 00:55 /usr/lib/libtermcap.so -> libncurses.so > > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 15160 Apr 24 2000 /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2 > > > l > > > > > > Remove your stale libraries - this one went away before 4.0-REL. > > > > ...Which then also begs the question- if I put this all into /usr/lib/compat- > > and libtermcap.so still whines about missing __stderr- is this a "we don't > > care- it's too old"? > > You shouldn't be building new binaries which link against libtermcap > (i.e. this should never happen) - it's only there for existing > binaries which would be linked against libc.so.3 also (both of which > are under compat/) and should continue to work. Yeah, okay- thanks! apparently the symlink to libncuruses works- so old X11 binaries work with libc.so.3 in /usr/lib/compat.... Whew! THanks! I didn't wanna have to rebuild all that goop... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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