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Date:      Wed, 14 May 1997 18:48:48 -0400
From:      "Donald J. Maddox" <root@cola77.scsn.net>
To:        Snedley <rcoste1@gl.umbc.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chris@cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: emacs
Message-ID:  <19970514184848.65008@cola77.scsn.net>
In-Reply-To: <337A38E9.2984@gl.umbc.edu>; from Snedley on Wed, May 14, 1997 at 06:12:57PM -0400
References:  <337A38E9.2984@gl.umbc.edu>

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On Wed, May 14, 1997 at 06:12:57PM -0400, Snedley wrote:
>     I have installed FreeBSD 2.1.7 and am very happy with it exclufding
> hte fact that when I invoke emacs I get the message ldconfig failed cant
> find file libgcc.a.261.0  or something very close to this.  I get a
> similar message with Xemacs.  I can use nedit and pico but would rather
> use emacs or Xemacs.  I talked with Chris @ Walnut Creek and he had me
> load the binary compatability files which I did to no avail.  I then
> reinstalled the OS this time including in the original instalation the
> compatability files  and I still get the same mesage.  Everything else
> works great.  I am using XFrr86 3.2A since I have a diamond Stealth 3D
> 3000 and it is directly supported by the S3V server.  I can do what
> I wanted, that is program my projects, but I can't do so with an editor
> I am familiar with and like.  Pico is the lowest common denominator and
> nedit is ok bnut it is not Xemacs or emacs.
> 
> Thanks in advance

It sounds like you probably just need to do the following:

# ldconfig -m /usr/lib/compat

Without this, the newly-added libs in /usr/lib/compat are not visible to
the system...

-- 


                                            Donald J. Maddox
                                            (dmaddox@scsn.net)




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