/usr/local/lib/compat and /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

[Joe Auty]

Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 21), Joe Auty said:
>> The other night I spent some frustrating time discovering that after
>> updating from 7.2 to 8.1, for some reason some of the libraries in
>> /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg were 32 bit on my 64 bit system which was
>> causing several of my binaries to generate "unsupported filesystem
>> layout" errors. I ended up copying the ones from /usr/local/lib/compat
>> into /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg which seemed to fix the problem.
>
> Did you also do a 32-> 64-bit migration at some point?  You probably should
> have moved everything in /usr/local/lib/compat to /usr/local/lib32 then to
> avoid problems.  32-bit apps shouldn't look for their shlibs in
> /usr/local/lib on a 64-bit system.  You can manually move any remaining ones
> by using the "file" command to identify 32-bit files, then moving them (or
> removing them if you have no 32-bit apps anymore).
>
Nope, there was never a 32 -> 64 bit migration or vice versa. However,
doing a:

file /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libcrypt.so.4

indicated that several of these libraries in compat/pkg were i386 rather
than amd64.



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