FreeBSD Port: mplayer-0.90.0.110_2 and RealAudio doesn't find linux libm

[Stephen Casner]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Thomas E. Zander wrote:

> On Wed, 13. Aug 2003, at 18:28 -0700, Stephen Casner wrote
> according to [FreeBSD Port: mplayer-0.90.0.110_2 and RealAudio doesn't find linux libm]:
>
> > I have installed the subject mplayer port and the linux-realplayer port
> > on FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE.  Trying to decode a .rm file using the RealAudio
> > encoding results in the error message:
> >
> > Error: Shared object "libm.so.6" not found
...
> I'd suggest the following: If adding /usr/compat/linux/lib to
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH solves the problem for you but you don't want to define
> it for your entire environment, why not just put in something like
>
> alias mplayer env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/compat/linux/lib mplayer
>
> in your shell startup file?

Thanks.  That idea did occur to me, but I figured there must be some
more systematic solution!  In this case, you have confirmed that there
isn't, so that will be it.

                                                        -- Steve