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Date:      Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:01:16 -0600
From:      John <john@starfire.mn.org>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backward compatibility libraries?
Message-ID:  <20100123180116.A60343@starfire.mn.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100123192502.GA85810@slackbox.xs4all.nl>; from rsmith@xs4all.nl on Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 08:25:02PM %2B0100
References:  <20100123131347.A56510@starfire.mn.org> <20100123192502.GA85810@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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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.
-- 

John Lind
john@starfire.MN.ORG



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