From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 25 20:35:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13554 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:35:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gforce.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-148-78.msy.bellsouth.net [209.214.148.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13549 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:35:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glenn@bellsouth.net) Received: from gforce.bellsouth.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gforce.bellsouth.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA02457; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 22:34:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from glenn@gforce.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199809260334.WAA02457@gforce.bellsouth.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Glenn Johnson Subject: Re: Finding a.out shared libraries (was: Netscape no longer works with ELF system) In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Lehey of "Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:31:05 +0930." <19980926123105.A20205@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 22:34:41 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ...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