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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:07:35 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
Cc:        Tobias Roth <roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch>, Pieter Westland <pieterw@euronet.nl>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions
Message-ID:  <20000329210735.F237@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000329092011.B24680@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>; from ru@ucb.crimea.ua on Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 09:20:11AM %2B0300
References:  <20000328213052.B234@parish> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003282318010.27642-100000@giger> <20000328223140.C234@parish> <20000329092011.B24680@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 09:20:11AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 10:31:40PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:21:46PM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > > This message appeared 166 times during ``make buildworld'':
> > > > > > 	/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.4" not found
> > > > > > It also caused config(8) on the new kernel to fail, but
> > > > > > 	ldconfig -R /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc
> > > > > > cured that.
> > > > 
> > > > It goes away once you've done ``make installworld'' libc.so.3 was in
> > > > 3.x but 4.x uses libc.so.4 and while you're doing ``make buildworld''
> > > > and building a new kernel you've got a sort of hybrid system. I maybe
> > > > wrong here, but ISTR recall that the new compiler (2.95) gets built
> > > > with the old compiler and then immediately re-builds itself using
> > > > itself :-/
> > > 
> > > So, does that mean I can skip the ldconfig, just do make buildworld and
> > > make installworld as I always did and everything will work?
> > > Or do I *HAVE* to to the ldconfig?
> > > 
> > 
> > Well no, when you build the 4.x kernel for the first time (before
> > installworld) it needs the ldconfig in order to find libc.so.4 or the
> > config will fail. Having said that, ISTR that something is being
> > changed to remove the need to run ldconfig.
> > 
> This is not the case when you build the kernel with buildkernel target.

Ah yes, that was the "something" I was thinking of. Thanks.

> 
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