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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 1996 08:23:38 -0700
From:      Keith Walker <kew@timesink.spk.wa.us>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: installing the emacs package 
Message-ID:  <199609201523.IAA06861@phobos.walker.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:20:03 PDT."

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> On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Josh Emmons (skia) wrote:
> 
> > id.so failed: Can't find shared library "libgcc.so.261.0"
> 
> This is the second time I've seen this.  libgcc.so.261.0 should be in
> /usr/lib.  You aren't trying to install a 2.1.5 package on 2.1, are you?
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> 

The problem is, Doug, is that it *isn't* on the 2.1.5 disks. At least
not where someone would find it easily. Josh needs to install the
compat20 dist to get that lib.

A few packages were mistakenly linked against the libgcc library, and
unfortunately one of them was emacs, which most everyone (?) installs
right away. (BTW, XEmacs was also linked against the libgcc lib, *and*
the Motif lib! And about every other X utility was linked against
newer X libs from 2.2, and so you get warnings every time you run one
of them that you're using outdated libs. Dare I say that 2.1.5 was
rushed?)

The only people who will have problems with the missing lib are those
who installed a clean system from the 2.1.5 CDROM. If they did an
update install, then the lib is already there, naturally, from the 2.1
or 2.0 system.

keith.



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