Shared object "libc_r.so.5" not found

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 03:06:16PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have just got some binary executables for a piece of software
> for which no source code is available (blast.wustl.edu).
> The executables seem to have been made on FreeBSD-5. 
> 
> I am running FreeBSD-4.9 (RELENG_4_9) and see this error when trying to
> run any of the provided binaries:
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc_r.so.5" not found
> 
> A search in Google turned up several mentions to a new?
> feature of FreeBSD-5 that has? been merged in
> FreeBSD-4-(STABLE?). They mention some libmap.conf(5)
> mappings and some note to UPDATING that is missing in my
> UPDATING file. Also, I don't have any libmap.conf file, 
> and I can't find any man page for libmap.conf(5).
> 
> My question is: is this only for -STABLE? -CURRENT?
> 
> Is there something I can do to run the software without
> having to update to -CURRENT or -STABLE? If there is no
> trivial solution, I can ask the authors to provide binaries
> for FreeBSD-4 ... but I thought of asking here first.

libc_r.so.5 is the libc_r for FreeBSD 5.x.  It is highly unlikly you
will be able to run this code without upgrading to 5.x.

-- Brooks

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