Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 15:57:49 -0700 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Portsclean -L Question Message-ID: <002001c1e019$f9b7efb0$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <00f501c1dfec$f1da8370$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <20020409175215.GB84522@dan.emsphone.com> <006d01c1dff7$31244020$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <007701c1dff7$ea155fb0$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> <20020409220221.GC84522@dan.emsphone.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 3:02 PM Subject: Re: Portsclean -L Question > In the last episode (Apr 09), Drew Tomlinson said: > > > > In the last episode (Apr 09), Drew Tomlinson said: > > > > > I ran portsclean on my system with the -L flag and received > > > > > this output: > > > > > > > > > > blacklamb# portsclean -iL > > > > > ** /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4 is in the way of /usr/lib/compat/libc_r.so.4 > > > > > > > > > > I assume this means I need to delete one of these files? Which > > > > > one? > > > > > > > > If this is an old system that was upgraded, chances are > > > > /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4 was the old system's libc, and when you > > > > upgraded, /usr/lib/libc_r.so.5 was installed and one of the > > > > compat packages installed /usr/lib/compat/libc_r.so.4. You can > > > > probably delete the copy in /usr/lib. > > > > > > Thank you. Yes, this system has been running RELEASE versions > > > since 4.0. I will delete the /usr/lib. > > > > OK, I guess I need to slow down a bit. I don't have a > > /usr/lib/libc_r.so.5 so maybe I shouldn't delete > > /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4? As you can probably tell, I have no clue as to > > how libraries and the OS works in general as I am not a programmer. > > I wonder why you have a libc_r.so.4 in /usr/lib/compat, then. Did you > install the compat4x package on a 4x machine? That's unnecessary, and > you can delete the duplicates in /usr/lib/compat. I don't know. I don't think I've installed the compat4x package. I know I installed the compat3x package some time ago to get FrontPage 2000 extensions running. I deleted the one in /usr/lib/compat. Now we'll see what breaks... :) Thanks for your help, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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