From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 1 11:29:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chickasaw.gate.net (chickasaw.gate.net [198.206.134.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E0E414C86 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 11:29:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjm@gate.net) Received: from navajo.gate.net (wjm@navajo.gate.net [199.227.0.15]) by chickasaw.gate.net (8.8.6/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA363604; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 14:28:29 -0400 Received: from localhost (wjm@localhost) by navajo.gate.net (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA31214; Sun, 1 Aug 1999 14:30:43 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: navajo.gate.net: wjm owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 14:30:43 -0400 (EDT) From: William Melanson To: "Laura Laytham (OCS)" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ld.so??? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Laura Laytham (OCS) wrote: % Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:36:25 -0400 (EDT) % From: "Laura Laytham (OCS)" % To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG % Subject: ld.so??? % % % Hello. % % I just installed the latest version of FreeBSD (two days ago) and now I am % trying to compiling an application that has no problem compiling on older % FreeBSD versions but that is failing for me with this new version. % % Here is the brief error I get: % % su-2.03# ./install-mck-3_2_0_4-freebsd % Couldn't open /usr/libexec/ld.so. % % Apparetly this ld.so library is pretty critical to my application. How can % I get this available on my new FreeBSD install? % % Please advise. % This should answer your queston... Go into the first installation cd: A typical FreeBSD distribution directory looks something like this: ABOUT.TXT bin dict manpages tools HARDWARE.TXT compat1x des doc packages INSTALL.TXT compat20 floppies ports README.TXT compat21 games proflibs RELNOTES.TXT compat22 info src LAYOUT.TXT XF86333 Within the compat22 directory run the install shell script which will install the necessary ld.so in /usr/libexec. This is what the problem is: 4. The compat1x, compat20, compat21 and compat22 directories contain distributions for compatibility with older releases and are distributed as single gzip'd tar files - they can be installed during release time or later by running their `install.sh' scripts. Those wishing to run older (2.2.x) a.out dynamically linked executables should always install the compat22 distribution. --------------------------------oOo------------------------------------ William J. Melanson CyberGate, Inc. | e.spire Communications Network Controller Deerfield Beach, FL 33441 Network Operations Center Phone: (954) 429-8080 --------------------------------oOo------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message