Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 22:34:41 -0500 From: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finding a.out shared libraries (was: Netscape no longer works with ELF system) Message-ID: <199809260334.WAA02457@gforce.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> of "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:31:05 %2B0930." <19980926123105.A20205@freebie.lemis.com>
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...snip... > >> # ldconfig -aout /usr/lib/aout /usr/local/lib /usr/X11R6/lib > > > > But I don't have the aout libs on this machine. > > Well, I suppose that's the problem :-) > > As long as you have a.out executables, you'll need the a.out > libraries. > > > Netscape works fine on machines that I have updated because it finds > > the aout libs in /usr/X11R6/lib/aout, but that is not the case with > > a fresh installation of 3.0Beta with ELFised ports. > > Right. > > Greg > -- OK, so I know I can grab the libraries from another machine. But let's say that someone does not have access to another machine with aout X11R6 libs, ie., a new user getting FreeBSD 3.0 from the CD when it is released. I am pretty sure they will want to run Netscape and probably some other aout precompiled binaries. How will this situation be handled? Should there be a compatibility package of aout libraries? I am not sure but I think some Linux distributions did that. Thanks. -- Glenn Johnson gljohns@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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