Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:04:17 -0800 From: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghostview missing libc.so.4? Message-ID: <3FEFC3E1.4090603@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <20031228094627.GB62584@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <3FEE5975.7060104@wiegand.org> <C258F32C-38F0-11D8-98AE-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> <3FEE77BA.4060506@wiegand.org> <C2B65945-38FF-11D8-98AE-000A95BBCCF8@mac.com> <20031228094627.GB62584@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Thanks for the tip - I installed compat4 and lilypond runs fine now. If I remember correctly the compats were installed by default in earlier versions weren't they? Anyway, thanks, Chip Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:33:34PM -0800, paul beard wrote: > > >>On Dec 27, 2003, at 10:27 PM, Chip Wiegand wrote: >> >> >> >>>Mine has libc.so.5. No wonder the app is failing, it specifically >>>wants .4 and is too dumb to work with anything newer. I'm getting real >>>frustrated with this again, I'd like to move away from MS but it's not >>>easy to do when the apps I need don't even work properly. >>> >>> >>You could fake it out with a symlink, but the Real Solution may be to >>rebuild whatever that file is part of, which I assume means a >>buildworld. >> >> > >No -- don't do that. Shlib version numbers are changed for a reason. > >Instead either install the misc/compat4x port or else set COMPAT4X=yes >in /etc/make.conf and rebuild your world. This will let you run apps >compiled for 4.x on a 5.x system. > > > >>I'm only running 4.9: I assume you're on 5.x if you have a higher file >>number? >> >> > >Yes -- for libc the shlib version number is the same as the major >version number of the OS. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > >
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