From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 14 15:49:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA11065 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 15:49:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rosie.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11060 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 15:49:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cola77.scsn.net ([206.25.247.77]) by rosie.scsn.net (Post.Office MTA v3.0 release 0121 ID# 0-32322U5000L100S10000) with ESMTP id AAA166; Wed, 14 May 1997 18:42:26 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by cola77.scsn.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) id SAA11451; Wed, 14 May 1997 18:48:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19970514184848.65008@cola77.scsn.net> Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 18:48:48 -0400 From: "Donald J. Maddox" To: Snedley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chris@cdrom.com Subject: Re: emacs References: <337A38E9.2984@gl.umbc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <337A38E9.2984@gl.umbc.edu>; from Snedley on Wed, May 14, 1997 at 06:12:57PM -0400 Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by cola77.scsn.net id SAA11451 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id PAA11061 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 06:12:57PM -0400, Snedley wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 2.1.7 and am very happy with it exclufding > hte fact that when I invoke emacs I get the message ldconfig failed cant > find file libgcc.a.261.0 or something very close to this. I get a > similar message with Xemacs. I can use nedit and pico but would rather > use emacs or Xemacs. I talked with Chris @ Walnut Creek and he had me > load the binary compatability files which I did to no avail. I then > reinstalled the OS this time including in the original instalation the > compatability files and I still get the same mesage. Everything else > works great.  I am using XFrr86 3.2A since I have a diamond Stealth 3D > 3000 and it is directly supported by the S3V server. I can do what > I wanted, that is program my projects, but I can't do so with an editor > I am familiar with and like. Pico is the lowest common denominator and > nedit is ok bnut it is not Xemacs or emacs. > > Thanks in advance It sounds like you probably just need to do the following: # ldconfig -m /usr/lib/compat Without this, the newly-added libs in /usr/lib/compat are not visible to the system... -- Donald J. Maddox (dmaddox@scsn.net)