From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 20 10:30:35 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 10:30:33 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.sc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32AD937B698 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:30:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sc.rr.com ([24.88.102.101]) by mail5.sc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:29:50 -0500 Received: (from dmaddox@localhost) by sc.rr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBKIU3C07466; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:30:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dmaddox) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:30:03 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Stephen McKay Subject: Re: Is compatibility for old aout binaries broken? Message-ID: <20001220133003.B7333@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Stephen McKay References: <200012201315.eBKDFtB24592@dungeon.home> <20001220101409.B8849@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: <20001220101409.B8849@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:14:09AM -0800 Return-Receipt-To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:14:09AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 11:15:55PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > > Correcting slightly for your slightly off assumption: The X11 libs were > > probably built on a 3.x box. Their problem is that being newer than > > libc.so.2.2 (or was it libc.so.3.0) they use ___error but libc does not > > supply it. My patches to rtld-aout (that first appeared in FreeBSD > > 3.0) supply ___error in this case. This is the only full fix for this > > situation. > > Why is not changing the XFree86-aoutlibs port to offer libs built on > 2.2.x not the right fix? I was under the impression that this was already the case... The libs in the XFree86-aoutlibs port ARE from 2.2.x. My problem was that I was using libs built on 3.x. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message