From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 29 00:04:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7512816A4E1 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 00:04:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (CPE00062566c7bb-CM000039c69a66.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [24.192.222.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE4D43D39 for ; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 00:04:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (smmsp@localhost.gsicomp.on.ca [127.0.0.1]) by gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBT84p8P072245; Mon, 29 Dec 2003 03:04:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost)hBSFOghQ068777; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:24:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:24:41 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Chip Wiegand In-Reply-To: <3FEE77BA.4060506@wiegand.org> Message-ID: <20031228102222.N68734@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca> References: <3FEE5975.7060104@wiegand.org> <3FEE77BA.4060506@wiegand.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ghostview missing libc.so.4? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 08:04:34 -0000 You sound like you're running 5.x. You will need to install the compat4x distribution to get FreeBSD-4.x compatibility libraries. You sound lik you should be running 4.x anyway -- 5.x is still a strange mix of "bleeding edge" and "stable" -- but it *is* called -CURRENT for a reason. Matt On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Chip Wiegand wrote: > Mine has libc.so.5. No wonder the app is failing, it specifically wants > .4 and is too dumb to work with anything newer. I'm getting real > frustrated with this again, I'd like to move away from MS but it's not > easy to do when the apps I need don't even work properly. > -- > Chip > > paul beard wrote: > > > > > On Dec 27, 2003, at 8:17 PM, chip wrote: > > > >> I just installed ghostview and when I try to open a .ps file I get > >> the error that libc.so.4 is missing. If this is a dependency then why > >> wasn't it installed with ghostscript or ghostview? What do I need to > >> do to fix this? There is no one port for libc.so.4. > >> > > > > This is what I have for libc (which I think is pretty darn integral to > > your system): what does ls -l /usr/lib/libc.so* show? > > > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Nov 22 23:04 /usr/lib/libc.so -> > > libc.so.4 > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 578964 Nov 22 23:04 /usr/lib/libc.so.4 > > > > -- > > Paul Beard > > > > paulbeard [at] mac.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > . > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >