Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 13 May 2006 22:03:49 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dan Strick <strick@covad.net>, dan@mist.nodomain
Subject:   Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1
Message-ID:  <200605132204.36267.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200605131129.k4DBTw4i000979@mist.nodomain>
References:  <200605131129.k4DBTw4i000979@mist.nodomain>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart1426596.edJvK2pkDY
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline

On Saturday 13 May 2006 20:59, Dan Strick wrote:
> When I attempt to run a program compiled on release 5.4 under
> release 6.1, the system complains that it cannot find libc.so.5.
> On my release 5.4 system, /usr/lib/compat contains old shared
> libraries.  On my release 6.1 system, /usr/lib/compat contains
> only the aout subdirectory.
>
> Is this a bug in release 6.1?

I think you need to install ports/misc/compat5x

You can probably use your existing libraries by calling ldconfig but I don'=
t=20
see any reason to not do it "the right way".


=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

--nextPart1426596.edJvK2pkDY
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQBEZdJc5ZPcIHs/zowRAqFUAJ9hlIj9IVkvlW+VIORvsWCAEv3QvQCeIUe6
BZPGceR8xcWj5CiCJJcvJb0=
=JnoM
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--nextPart1426596.edJvK2pkDY--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200605132204.36267.doconnor>