On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:33:34PM -0800, paul beard wrote: > > On Dec 27, 2003, at 10:27 PM, 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. > > You could fake it out with a symlink, but the Real Solution may be to > rebuild whatever that file is part of, which I assume means a > buildworld.
No -- don't do that. Shlib version numbers are changed for a reason.
Instead either install the misc/compat4x port or else set COMPAT4X=yes
in /etc/make.conf and rebuild your world. This will let you run apps
compiled for 4.x on a 5.x system.
> I'm only running 4.9: I assume you're on 5.x if you have a higher file
> number?
Yes -- for libc the shlib version number is the same as the major
version number of the OS.
Cheers,
Matthew
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