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Date:      Sat, 16 Dec 2000 16:17:57 -0500
From:      "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Is compatibility for old aout binaries broken?
Message-ID:  <20001216161756.A6370@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>

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The other day, on a whim, I decided to try running an old binary
of SimCity (the same one found in the 'commerce' directory on
many FBSD cds), and it failed in a odd way...

/usr/libexec/ld.so: Undefined symbol "___error" called from sim:/usr/X11R6/lib/aout/libX11.so.6.1 at 0x20160644

# ldd sim
./sim:
        -lXext.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/aout/libXext.so.6.3 (0x200c5000)
        -lX11.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/aout/libX11.so.6.1 (0x200cf000)
        -lc.2 => /usr/lib/compat/aout/libc.so.2.2 (0x20166000)
        -lm.2 => /usr/lib/compat/aout/libm.so.2.0 (0x201cb000)
        -lgcc.261 => /usr/lib/compat/aout/libgcc.so.261.0 (0x201e5000)

So, all the necessary compatibility libraries are there, but it fails
anyway.  I tried 'nm | grep error' on the sim binary and libX11.so.6.1
and didn't find any symbol, undefined or otherwise, by that name...

Am I overlooking something obvious here, or is something actually
broken with respect to running old aout binaries?


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