__stderrp problem after 4.8 binary upgrade

[Larry Rosenman]

--On Monday, April 07, 2003 03:24:31 +0100 Richard Tobin 
<richard at cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>> As to why the binary upgrade didn't upgrade, I'm not sure.
>
> The problem turns out to be not that the upgrade did not put a new
> libc.so.3 in /usr/lib/compat - it did - but that there was an old
> libc.so.3 in /usr/lib.  I don't know why it was there: it's dated Dec
> 28 1999 and should presumably have been removed many releases ago.
>
> (This machine has been continously upgraded since FreeBSD 1.1, along
> with almost all its hardware being replaced of course, so there are
> probably lots of odd files lying around.)
Good.  At least we know WHAT happened.

As to removing files, I don't think that binary upgrades do that, but, as I 
said, I don't
know.  My laptop started out at 4.5. (It's a year old).

Thanks for the follow-up.

LER

>
> -- Richard



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