From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 13 17:51:47 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C72816A404 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:51:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F5A13C484 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:51:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496C61A3C1C; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6F2ED51339; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:51:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:51:46 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Robert Huff Message-ID: <20070313175145.GB9609@xor.obsecurity.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="kORqDWCi7qDJ0mEj" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17910.49887.381333.73086@jerusalem.litteratus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: questions Subject: Re: 6.2 running 4.x binaries (missing libc.so.3) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:51:47 -0000 --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--