Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:07:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finding a.out shared libraries (was: Netscape no longer works with ELF system) Message-ID: <19980926130720.C20205@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199809260334.WAA02457@gforce.bellsouth.net>; from Glenn Johnson on Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 10:34:41PM -0500 References: <grog@lemis.com> <199809260334.WAA02457@gforce.bellsouth.net>
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On Friday, 25 September 1998 at 22:34:41 -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote: > ...snip... > >>>> # ldconfig -aout /usr/lib/aout /usr/local/lib /usr/X11R6/lib >>> >>> But I don't have the aout libs on this machine. >> >> Well, I suppose that's the problem :-) >> >> As long as you have a.out executables, you'll need the a.out >> libraries. >> >>> Netscape works fine on machines that I have updated because it finds >>> the aout libs in /usr/X11R6/lib/aout, but that is not the case with >>> a fresh installation of 3.0Beta with ELFised ports. >> >> Right. > > OK, so I know I can grab the libraries from another machine. But let's say > that someone does not have access to another machine with aout X11R6 libs, > ie., a new user getting FreeBSD 3.0 from the CD when it is released. I am > pretty sure they will want to run Netscape and probably some other aout > precompiled binaries. How will this situation be handled? Should there be a > compatibility package of aout libraries? I am not sure but I think some Linux > distributions did that. A good point. I expected that this would be the case, but it doesn't do any harm to state it explicitly. Jordan, was this in your planning? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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