From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 20 0:56:58 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 00:56:56 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.sc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B54137B400; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:56:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sc.rr.com ([24.88.102.101]) by mail7.sc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:56:53 -0500 Received: (from dmaddox@localhost) by sc.rr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBK8v7g03934; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:57:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmaddox) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:57:07 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Stephen McKay , "Donald J . Maddox" , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is compatibility for old aout binaries broken? Message-ID: <20001220035707.B3783@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Stephen McKay , "Donald J . Maddox" , current@freebsd.org References: <20001216161756.A6370@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <200012171658.eBHGwGW24109@dungeon.home> <20001220005106.F41741@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001220005106.F41741@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:51:06AM -0800 Return-Receipt-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Looks like you got a lot farther than I did with it... Are you sure you don't have an old aout ld.so on that machine? Here's what I get: >dmaddox> SimCity Starting SimCity ... SimCity Classic - UNIX / Tcl & Tk Toolkit version 3.6b - Mattes /usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "___error" called from sim:/usr/X11R6/lib/aout/libX11.so.6.1 at 0x20160644 >dmaddox> BTW - That 'commerce' directory has more old aout binaries in it I bet... Also, it looks to me like SimCity would probably run just fine for you if you started X on an 8-bit display... On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:51:06AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 02:58:16AM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > > >The other day, on a whim, I decided to try running an old binary > > >of SimCity (the same one found in the 'commerce' directory on > > >many FBSD cds), and it failed in a odd way... > > Does anyone have any old a.out binaries other than SimCity that they have > problems with? I've installed the SimCity package, compat20 and compat21 > dists, but cannot get it to run: > > Starting SimCity ... > SimCity Classic - UNIX / Tcl & Tk Toolkit version 3.6b - Mattes > Adding a player on dragon:0.0 ... > Display Visual = truecolor > Display Depth = 24 > SimCity can't find an 8 bit color or 1 bit monochrome display on > "dragon:0.0". > SimCity: error in TCL code: bad window path name ".head0" > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message