Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 13:36:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, khera@kciLink.com Subject: Re: 4.1-RELEASE & Netscape (aout libraries) Message-ID: <200008241736.NAA78958@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <14757.23661.361639.463861@onceler.kciLink.com>
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Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> wrote: > > >>>>> "TDR" == Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> writes: > > TDR> It seems that a fresh/clean install of 4.1-RELEASE didn't > TDR> install the aout libraries. (/usr/lib/aout is empty) > > > TDR> Thus, installing Netscape results in something that can't find > TDR> libXt.so.6.0. > > TDR> Any idea about how/where to find the aout X11 libraries? > > Yes. During install (or make installworld) select the FreeBSD 2.2 > compatibility libraries for installation. > > This installs the necessary a.out system libs you need to run netscape > (the package system will install the necessary X11 a.out libraries if > it finds the 2.2 a.out system libs). > > However, this compatibility does not install /usr/lib/aout/c++rt0.o > which is necessary for compiling a.out binaries (such as the plugger > port, which links into netscape). For this, you need to pull it off > of a 2.2.x binary distribution, as discussed here two days ago. > > Now, let's just convince Netscape to build a native 4.1 binary, eh? > ;-) > Hmm... I'm pretty sure I did select all of the compat options in sysinstall when I did the install... (is there a way, after the fact now, to see if I actually did, or if I'm simply mis-remembering, or, maybe - "missed" one of these?) - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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