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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


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