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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:40:22 +0530
From: Shakul M Hameed <smohideen@mx2.labs.rootshell.ws>
To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
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Cc: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How To Get libm.so.4?
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I think its not a very bad idea, unless your app is dependent on a routine which is deprecated and
not avaiable in the latest version of library. For testing purpose this should be ok. 
           
             - moin        

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:12:55AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:56:13PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote:
> > check for libm.so.5 in /lib.
> > do a softlink of libm.so.4 pointing to libm.so.5 
> > I guess this should fix your issue.
> 
> **DO NOT** do this.
> 
> -- 
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