Problems with FreeBSD 5.4

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Thu Jun 30 19:16:24 GMT 2005


In the last episode (Jun 30), service at fixer.com said:
> I have been using FreeBSD for about 10 years.  I have had the 5.4
> version for about a month.  The only problem I'm having is that
> there's of lot of files like libutil.so.3, libreadline.so.4,
> libm.so.2 and libexpat.so.4 that are missing.  I have found most off
> older versions FreeBSD software.  But I give up on finding
> libutil.so.3 I used google.com to try to find it.  I did a search for
> libutil.so.3, also checked the Free Software Foundation and came up
> with nothing.  Hope you can tell me where I can find it.

That's a FreeBSD 4.x library. Install the misc/compat4x port (or just
run pkgadd -r compat4x) if you have old binares that require it, or
rebuild the program and it will link against FreeBSD 5.4's libutil.so.4
library.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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