6.2 running 4.x binaries (missing libc.so.3)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:27:27AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> Sergio Lenzi writes:
> 
> >  > >  However, the 4.x binaries want to find libc.so.3, which
> >  > >  doesn't seem to be anywhere around.
> >  > >  
> >  > >  Anyone know the trick to getting this to work?
> >  > 
> >  > 	/usr/ports/misc/compat4x ?
> >  
> >  or as a workaround 
> >  add in the /etc/libmap.conf
> >  
> >  libc.so.3                        libc.so
> >  libm.so.3                       libm.so
> >  
> >  ......
> >  that is every shared library it complains add it to 
> >  the /etc/libmap.conf
> 
> 	That can work.
> 	On the other hand, there's no guarantee the ABI - never mind
> the internal operation - of any function will remain constant across
> a major version bump.  (As far as I know.)

In fact in FreeBSD a version bump is almost always a guarantee that
they are incompatible and you will break some applications by doing
this.

Kris
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