From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 16:41:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9A11065678 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:41:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dyioulos@firstbhph.com) Received: from mail1.firstbhph.com (mail1.firstbhph.com [67.108.218.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053898FC1E for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:41:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dyioulos@firstbhph.com) X-First1-MailScanner-Watermark: 1205426476.37797@p4J1ONVQTJMe1S2CO5e7WA Received: from [192.168.100.52] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.firstbhph.com (8.14.2/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m26GfFgr031755 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:41:15 -0500 From: Dimitri Yioulos Organization: First 1 Financial Corporation To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:41:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <284486.87640.qm@web25010.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <200803041616.45633.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> <20080305131502.59aa7023@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20080305131502.59aa7023@meijome.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803061141.18740.dyioulos@firstbhph.com> X-Synonym: Copied by Synonym (http://www.modulo.ro/synonym) to: archive@firstbhph.com X-First1-MailScanner-Information: Please contact First 1 Financial Corporation for more information X-First1-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-First1-MailScanner-MCPCheck: MCP-Clean, MCP-Checker (score=0, required 1) X-MailScanner-From: dyioulos@firstbhph.com X-MailScanner-To: archive@firstbhph.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lib Errors After 6.3 - 7 Update X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:41:27 -0000 On Tuesday 04 March 2008 9:15 pm, you wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:16:44 -0500 > > Dimitri Yioulos wrote: > > Perhaps someone has a better suggestion for you, but I had a similar > > issue with regard to installing VMware Tools. In my case, I symlinked > > libc.so.5 linked to libc.so.6, and the VMware Tools installation > > proceeded. > > Like Kris said, not really good. An option may be, if you want to limit > your exposure to compatibility issues, is to use libmap.conf , so you only > map libc.so.6 as .5 ONLY for certain executables/libraries that depend on > them. > > I find it this method a much better one to managed - one central place to > manage library tricks, and is more advanced than symlinking. And you can > easily transfer it to other systems > > B > > _________________________ > {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome > Thank you, Beto, for increasing my knowledge. I'll take a look at libmap.conf and read any extant info on it. Dimitri -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.