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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:21:49 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Niels Kobschaetzki <n.kobschaetzki@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libc.so.6 not found
Message-ID:  <47F0D75D.2080801@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <bf4e1fa10803310512y5806f228o859ccee413421953@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <bf4e1fa10803310512y5806f228o859ccee413421953@mail.gmail.com>

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Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have here severe problems with installing stuff. I tried to
> recompile xemacs 21.4 and got a:
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by
> "install-info"
> I searched google and it seems that this is from FreeBSD 6 while I am
> running 7 and I have only libc.so.7 on my system.
> I wondered, tried to compile xemacs 21.5 from the sources and ran into
> some other trouble. I figured that I'll do a a cvsup with FreeBSD
> 7.0-stable and do a portupgrade -ra to do an upgrade for all packages;
> hoping that the trouble wents away and I get some kind of xemacs with
> mule-support installed. But the portupgrade ran into some problems
> because of a stale dependency (ORBit2-2.14.10 -> libIDL-0.8.9_1
> (devel/libIDL).
> I want to install now this stale dependency and get the same error:
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by
> "install-info"
> 
> Anyone who can help here?

I guess you missed part of the upgrade steps when you updated to 7.0. 
The step you missed involved a portupgrade -fa (or -faP) to refresh all 
of your ports with 7.0 versions to avoid precisely this problem.  You 
should do that now to repair your system.

Kris



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