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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ou.edu!leto.ou.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!europa.clark.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!uwm.edu!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!news.cuny.edu!news From: CHANG ANDRE W <wkchang@nyct.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New Installation Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 19:37:56 -0400 Lines: 43 Message-ID: <33838754.41C67EA6@nyct.net> References: <EAI42z.L80@nonexistent.com> <5lv322$ae8@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cslabs2c3.engr.ccny.cuny.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c) CC: wkchang@nyct.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41388 Brian Somers wrote: > > In article <EAI42z.L80@nonexistent.com>, > Andre Chang <wkchang@nyct.net> writes: > > Hi, > > I recieved my copy of FreeBSD 2.2.1 a few weeks ago and I just got a > > chance to install it in my seperate FreeBSD only machine. I did a fresh > > installation rather than upgrade from 2.1.7 The machine runs AMD486/p75 > > with WD1.6G Hdd. > > My problem is that when I try to run c++ programs after compilation the > > a.out file does not work. In the a.out file I found the comments: > > > > /usr/libexec/ld.so^@Couldn't open ^@. > > ^@Failure reading ld.so > > ^@Bad magic: ld.so > > ^@Cannot map ld.so (text) > > ^@Cannot map ld.so (data) > > ^@Cannot map ld.so (bss) > > ^@ld.so failed^@: ^@ > > You'll find them in every binary (unless it's statically linked). > > > I'm not familar with configuring the ld.so file with ldconfig. this > > being a new installation I do not know if there should be a problem and > > where it might be. And help would be greatly appreciated. > > You don't need to configure it unless you create new shared libraries > youself. > > You havn't said what goes wrong with your a.out. What do you mean > by "the a.out file does not work" ? > > -- > Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org> > <http://www.awfulhak.org> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! Thanks for replying. The problrm that seems to be happening is that I compile fine and the a.out file is made but when I type a.out I get the message: a.out: not found. Andre. chan6169<wkchang@nyct.net>