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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: where do i find shared libraries?
Date: 8 Sep 1996 01:42:43 GMT
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dannyman@arh0061.urh.uiuc.edu (Dannyman) wrote:

> dannyman (~) > emacs
> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libgcc.so.261.0"

compat2xdist

Emacs was not supposed to be linked against this library (nor was
xemacs supposed to be linked against Motif), these were accidents.
That's the reason why this ain't documented.

> dannyman (~) > ispell
> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libc.so.3.0"

This has been mentioned 10 dozens times here.  You're trying to use a
package built on 2.2-current on an earlier (2.1.x) system.  Packages
are always being built for -current systems.

For libc.so.3, the case is simple: by now, the only action that
required the major number bump was the removal of some functions.
Hence, you can link your libc.so.2.2 to libc.so.3.0, and go on.  NB:
all your newly linked programs will also be linked against libc.so.3
then unless you place the link in something else than /usr/lib, and
teach the shared loader about this using ldconfig.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)