I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and had no problems during the basic installation. I did a "Custom" install and seleced "All" in the "Choose Distributions" menu. When I attempt to run a program compiled on release 5.4 under release 6.1, the system complains that it cannot find libc.so.5. On my release 5.4 system, /usr/lib/compat contains old shared libraries. On my release 6.1 system, /usr/lib/compat contains only the aout subdirectory. Is this a bug in release 6.1? dan
On Saturday 13 May 2006 20:59, Dan Strick wrote:> When I attempt to run a program compiled on release 5.4 under > release 6.1, the system complains that it cannot find libc.so.5. > On my release 5.4 system, /usr/lib/compat contains old shared > libraries. On my release 6.1 system, /usr/lib/compat contains > only the aout subdirectory. > > Is this a bug in release 6.1?I think you need to install ports/misc/compat5x You can probably use your existing libraries by calling ldconfig but I don't see any reason to not do it "the right way". -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20060513/37d93b6e/attachment.pgp
[I may have missed some responses to my original posting because the "current" set of postings has been cleaned out but not yet installed in the mailing list archive.] I just installed FreeBSD 6.1, selecting "All" in the distributions selection menu, and discovered that the compat* distributions are no longer part of the standard distribution. I searched the RELNOTES and ERRATA for both 6.0 and 6.1 and found no mention of this. I have received email from someone (apparently a copy of one of the postings to freebsd-stable that I didn't see) suggesting that I install /usr/ports/misc/compat5x. Is this the official work-around? I see that there are also compat4x and compat3x ports in /usr/ports/misc. Is 1x, 20, 21, and 22 compatibility support gone forever? (Not that I would miss it. I only need 4x and 5x compatibility.) Dan Strick