Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:55:28 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "E. J. Cerejo" <ejcerejo@optonline.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Vinny <vinny-mail-01+f.questions20080309@palaceofretention.ca> Subject: Re: How did references to libc.so.7 get in my 6.3 ports? Message-ID: <47D4DB60.1000901@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080310000046.6b0d9bc0.ejcerejo@optonline.net> References: <47D47CFD.7000001@palaceofretention.ca> <20080309225258.22232a58.ejcerejo@optonline.net> <47D4AFD6.5020401@palaceofretention.ca> <20080310000046.6b0d9bc0.ejcerejo@optonline.net>
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E. J. Cerejo wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:49:42 -0400
> Vinny <vinny-mail-01+f.questions20080309@palaceofretention.ca> wrote:
>=20
>> E. J. Cerejo wrote:
>>> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:12:45 -0400 Vinny
>>> <vinny-mail-01+f.questions20080309@palaceofretention.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I was trying to use portupgrade on totem and ran into a problem
>>>> with references for libc.so.7 failing to resolve. I have a
>>>> libc.so.6, of course, seeing as libc.so.7 is for FreeBSD 7, isn't
>>>> it?
>>>>
>>>> uname -a FreeBSD the.pal...ofretention.ca 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
>>>> 6.3-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Jan 16 09:32:16 EST 2008=20
>>>> root@the.pal...ofretention.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THE i386
>>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>
>>> You updated the port that put libc.so.6 in your system, you need to
>>> find out which port it came from and then find out which which ports
>>> depend on it and rebuild them also and then the problem will be
>>> fixed. I use /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdadminscripts which tells me
>>> exactly which ports need to be rebuilt.
>>
>> Hi E. J.,
>>
>> Is it true that a port put libc.so.6 in my system?
>> I thought it was part of the base system (i.e. the world as in
>> buildworld).
>>
>> I'm a bit (more) confused now.
libc.so.6 is part of the base system.
> Then you're running FreeBSD 6.x and you updated your ports tree after
> FreeBSD 7.0 release. The latest ports tree no longer supports 6.x I
> believe. So you should upgrade to 7 release or stable.
Utter twaddle. The ports tree certainly does still support 6.x.
To the OP: yes, your initial thought that libc.so.6 comes with
RELENG_6_X and libc.so.7 is part of anything RELENG_7_X -- that is
completely correct.
If you're running a 6.x machine, then nothing should be linking against
libc.so.7 -- that sort of forward compatibility is not possible. (Unlike=
the inverse case, where you can have applications linked against a 6.x
world running under 7.x).
I suspect that what has happened is that you've inadvertently installed
packages compiled for release 7.0 on a 6.3 system -- which as you've foun=
d,
does not work. This is a problem that can *only* occur with pre-compiled=
packages. If you build the software out of ports directly on your 6.3
machines, it will automatically have the correct linkage to libc.so.6. =20
Note that you may need to rebuild applications further up the dependency
tree than just the particular one you pointed out: shlibs and loadable
modules can depend on other shlibs in as arbitrarily complex a fashion as=
you can imagine.
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
Flat 3
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