From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 25 20:37:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13789 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:37:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13783 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA01654; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:07:22 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id NAA20307; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:07:20 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980926130720.C20205@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 13:07:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Glenn Johnson Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finding a.out shared libraries (was: Netscape no longer works with ELF system) References: <199809260334.WAA02457@gforce.bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199809260334.WAA02457@gforce.bellsouth.net>; from Glenn Johnson on Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 10:34:41PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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