Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:51:46 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.2 running 4.x binaries (missing libc.so.3) Message-ID: <20070313175145.GB9609@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <17910.49887.381333.73086@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <200703131232.l2DCWn978167@lakes.dignus.com> <17910.47489.986075.631967@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <1173798299.26618.6.camel@localhost> <17910.49887.381333.73086@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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--kORqDWCi7qDJ0mEj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:27:27AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > Sergio Lenzi writes: >=20 > > > > However, the 4.x binaries want to find libc.so.3, which > > > > doesn't seem to be anywhere around. > > > > =20 > > > > Anyone know the trick to getting this to work? > > >=20 > > > /usr/ports/misc/compat4x ? > > =20 > > or as a workaround=20 > > add in the /etc/libmap.conf > > =20 > > libc.so.3 libc.so > > libm.so.3 libm.so > > =20 > > ...... > > that is every shared library it complains add it to=20 > > the /etc/libmap.conf >=20 > That can work. > On the other hand, there's no guarantee the ABI - never mind > the internal operation - of any function will remain constant across > a major version bump. (As far as I know.) In fact in FreeBSD a version bump is almost always a guarantee that they are incompatible and you will break some applications by doing this. Kris --kORqDWCi7qDJ0mEj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF9uSxWry0BWjoQKURAoASAKCFM6vtd2T+z4ZBhcTG19tkCgY0ogCeJPgD OQgsNQu2cMhFCGLzdxU+Ifg= =ZoF8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kORqDWCi7qDJ0mEj--
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