From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 18:53: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A0DD37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:53:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 56653 invoked by uid 100); 20 Jul 2001 01:53:00 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15191.36604.577995.987796@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 20:53:00 -0500 To: Neil Darlow Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Source Update is incomplete? In-Reply-To: <25723275@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Neil Darlow types: > I haven't come across any good documentation on these so which do I > need to enable. I'm guessing that these are for compatibility with > older versions of FreeBSD and if I'm not running anything from 3.x, > and earlier, should I just enable COMPAT4X? You're right - they are for compatability with old versions of freebsd's C libraries. To run binaries from FreeBSD ?.X, you need to enable COMPAT?X. Note that some ports/packages install prebuilt binaries that may need those compat libraries, though I've not found anything that needs things prior to COMPAT3X. A message like '/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.3" not found' from the binary is a good indication that it wants - in this case - COMPAT3X. As for COMPAT4X on 4-STABLE, it just creates old versions of some crypto libraries. You may not need it at all in that case. If you're running -current, you should read the description of -stable vs. -current at , then consider whether you really want to be doing that. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message