libc.so.6 not found

[Kris Kennaway]

Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>>  > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>  >> Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
>>  >>  > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>  >>  >> 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?
>>  >>  >>
>>  >>  >>  I guess you missed part of the upgrade steps when you updated to 7.0.
>>  >>  >>  The step you missed involved a portupgrade -fa (or -faP) to refresh all
>>  >>  >>  of your ports with 7.0 versions to avoid precisely this problem.  You
>>  >>  >>  should do that now to repair your system.
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > I never upgraded - I did a direct install of 7.0 from downloaded isos.
>>  >>
>>  >>  That doesn't explain why you have lots of installed 6.x packages.
>>  >
>>  > Well, I do not have any idea neither -- I never touched anything
>>  > mentioning FreeBSD 6.x
>>
>>  The FreeBSD 7.0 isos only contain 7.0 packages, so it makes no sense
>>  that they installed 6.x packages for you :-)
> 
> I guessed so. I installed ports via packages, did a cvsup a few days
> ago with Release I think and since then I'm compiling.

OK, so you in fact did not just do a direct install from the iso and 
nothing else :)  One of those other steps must have gone wrong, e.g. you 
installed packages from the wrong package set.

Kris