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Subject: Re: Backward compatibility libraries?
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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:25:02PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:14:01PM -0600, John wrote:
> > The GENERIC 8.0 kernel and the kernel I built for my new FreeBSD 8.0
> > system both contain
> > options         COMPAT_FREEBSD4         # Compatible with FreeBSD4
> > 
> > yet, when I try to run a program compiled on the FreeBSD 4.3 system on
> > the new system, I get
> > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.4" not found, required by "pipetype"
> > 
> > So - there must be some compatibility libraries somewhere.  I've
> > looked in Packages and in Distributions, and didn't see what I'm
> > looking for (probably looking right at it).
>  
> It's in ports, misc/compat4x. 

Morgan and Roland both - Thanks!  Perfect!  They work now.
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John Lind
john@starfire.MN.ORG