FreeBSD 4.11 binary compatibility (libm.so.2, etc)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 02:23:42PM -0700, Jon Drukman wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > Have you tried the compat4 port:
> > > >    /usr/ports/misc/compat4x
> > >
> > > thanks!  that got me past one error, now i'm stuck on libcrypt.so.2
> > >
> > > is there a port for libcrypt compat?  (i didn't find anything obvious by
> > > searching on *compat* or *crypt*)
> >
> > It's part of the same freebsd compat ports.
> 
> 
> It's not in compat4x.  On a whim I tried installing compat5x and that
> provided the missing library.

Sounds right, although what the binary is doing is not correct and in
principle it may not work properly.  If you have run it before then it
will continue to work as well as it ever did though.

Kris