ghostview missing libc.so.4?

[Chip Wiegand]

Thanks for the tip - I installed compat4 and lilypond runs fine now.
If I remember correctly the compats were installed by default in earlier 
versions weren't they?
Anyway, thanks,
Chip

Matthew Seaman wrote:

>On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:33:34PM -0800, paul beard wrote:
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>>On Dec 27, 2003, at 10:27 PM, Chip Wiegand wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>No -- don't do that.  Shlib version numbers are changed for a reason.
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>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.
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>>I'm only running 4.9: I assume you're on 5.x if you have a higher file 
>>number?
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>Yes -- for libc the shlib version number is the same as the major
>version number of the OS.
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>	Cheers,
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>	Matthew
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