From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 23 11:45: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E1737B65D for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:44:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA26474; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:44:57 -0800 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:44:56 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Kris Kennaway Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btw - Re: whither libtermcap? (fallout of libc dance) In-Reply-To: <20010223114017.A73524@mollari.cthul.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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