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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:31:40 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        Tobias Roth <roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch>
Cc:        Pieter Westland <pieterw@euronet.nl>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions
Message-ID:  <20000328223140.C234@parish>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003282318010.27642-100000@giger>; from roth@iamexwi.unibe.ch on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:21:46PM %2B0200
References:  <20000328213052.B234@parish> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10003282318010.27642-100000@giger>

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On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:21:46PM +0200, Tobias Roth wrote:
> 
> > > > This message appeared 166 times during ``make buildworld'':
> > > > 	/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.4" not found
> > > > It also caused config(8) on the new kernel to fail, but
> > > > 	ldconfig -R /usr/obj/usr/src/lib/libc
> > > > cured that.
> > 
> > It goes away once you've done ``make installworld'' libc.so.3 was in
> > 3.x but 4.x uses libc.so.4 and while you're doing ``make buildworld''
> > and building a new kernel you've got a sort of hybrid system. I maybe
> > wrong here, but ISTR recall that the new compiler (2.95) gets built
> > with the old compiler and then immediately re-builds itself using
> > itself :-/
> 
> So, does that mean I can skip the ldconfig, just do make buildworld and
> make installworld as I always did and everything will work?
> Or do I *HAVE* to to the ldconfig?
> 

Well no, when you build the 4.x kernel for the first time (before
installworld) it needs the ldconfig in order to find libc.so.4 or the
config will fail. Having said that, ISTR that something is being
changed to remove the need to run ldconfig.

> thx, tobe
> 
> 
> 
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