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Date:      Wed, 20 Dec 2000 05:09:45 -0500
From:      "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>, Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is compatibility for old aout binaries broken?
Message-ID:  <20001220050945.C4495@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001220015223.H41741@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:52:23AM -0800
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 01:52:23AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:57:07AM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Nope.  This is a box that was a virgin install of 5-CURRENT a month ago.
> I had to install the compat20 and compat21 dists, along with doing a
> ``pkg_add -r XFree86-aoutlibs''.  The Tk is 8.0.5.
> 
> > 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
> 
> Actually you're probably getting farther than I am.  I believe I'm
> bombing so early in starting Tk, I'm not really getting to the point you
> are.  What does `ldd /usr/local/lib/SimCity/res/sim'' report?

>res> ldd sim
sim:
	-lXext.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/aout/libXext.so.6.3 (0x200c5000)
	-lX11.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/aout/libX11.so.6.1 (0x200cf000)
	-lc.2 => /usr/lib/compat/aout/libc.so.2.2 (0x20166000)
	-lm.2 => /usr/lib/compat/aout/libm.so.2.0 (0x201cb000)
	-lgcc.261 => /usr/lib/compat/aout/libgcc.so.261.0 (0x201e5000)
>res> 

> > Also, it looks to me like SimCity would probably run just
> > fine for you if you started X on an 8-bit display...
> 
> Maybe, but I'm not going to dink with my X server config. ;-)
> Mabye I'll try to find another box to try this on.

Heh :)  You don't have to dink around with your config...  Just do
'startx -- -bpp 8'.


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