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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New Installation
Date: 22 May 1997 10:52:04 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <33838754.41C67EA6@nyct.net>,
CHANG ANDRE W <wkchang@nyct.net> writes:
> 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.
It's a PATH problem. Type
$ ./a.out
or put the current directory in your path (unsafe):
$ PATH=.:$PATH
Unlike DOS, the current directory isn't part of your path unless
it's specifically put in there.
> Andre.
> chan6169<wkchang@nyct.net>
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !