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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 1998 09:13:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: /usr/lib/aout
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807240911230.19551-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980724180714.A18189@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 08:51:42AM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I assume /usr/lib/aout has been invented to tell from 
> > > elm vs. aout based systems.
> > > 
> > > When I upgrade a 1 year old -current system to a -current,
> > > what should happen with the libs /usr/lib. Should I
> > > remove them all?
> > 
> > /usr/lib/lib* can disappear once you've rebooted with new /etc/rc* and
> > libs in aout.  ldconfig will DTRT (and stop complaining about /usr/lib).
> > For security I moved them into /usr/lib/foo temporarily.
> > 
> 
> The man page of ldconfig is still talking about a builtin /usr/lib.
> This should disappear then, right?

Yes.

> I had a problem this morning after moving from 3.0-current of July 1997
> to 3.0-current of yesterday. Had to rebuild (at least) elm.
> And when the user started elm he said he couldn't move
> up down to the messages with the cursor keys.

Could be a curses thing.  

Ouch, a year migration of CURRENT?  Not fun. 

> I was blaming this to a possible mess I may have had with /usr/lib still
> being in the ldconfig path.  Right now I'm gonna reboot that machine
> with all stuff in /usr/lib removed and the right /etc/rc setting
> as what LDC_ is concerned.

Copy in the new /etc/rc* from /usr/src/etc/rc* and
/usr/src/etc/i386/rc.i386 and that will get you pointed right.  (don't
spam rc.conf!)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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