libc.so.6 not found

[Lars Eighner]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have here severe problems with installing stuff. I tried to
> recompile xemacs 21.4 and got a:
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by
> "install-info"
> I searched google and it seems that this is from FreeBSD 6 while I am
> running 7 and I have only libc.so.7 on my system.
> I wondered, tried to compile xemacs 21.5 from the sources and ran into
> some other trouble. I figured that I'll do a a cvsup with FreeBSD
> 7.0-stable and do a portupgrade -ra to do an upgrade for all packages;
> hoping that the trouble wents away and I get some kind of xemacs with
> mule-support installed. But the portupgrade ran into some problems
> because of a stale dependency (ORBit2-2.14.10 -> libIDL-0.8.9_1
> (devel/libIDL).
> I want to install now this stale dependency and get the same error:
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.6" not found, required by
> "install-info"
>
> Anyone who can help here?

The temporary quick fix is to install the misc/compat6x port.  Someone
else has advised you how to make the correct permanent fix.

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