packages failing to load

[Armin Arh]

libc and libm are system libraries.
These are not ports.
You find them in the compat4X and compat5X stuff coming
along with FreeBSD itself.

Look on a close Mirror for files like

./5.4-RELEASE/compat3x:
CHECKSUM.MD5
compat3x.aa
compat3x.ab
compat3x.inf
compat3x.mtree
install.sh
./5.4-RELEASE/compat4x:
CHECKSUM.MD5
compat4x.aa
compat4x.ab
compat4x.inf
compat4x.mtree
install.sh

# -> fetch the complete directories, then

cd compat3x
sh install.sh
# etc.

Installing compat3x, compat4x from any release will work an all boxes.
Thus, you can fetch the stuff from 6.1-RELEASE, install this on your 5.5, and it will work on
your 7.X, too!
+ It does no harm to your disk, because it's small.

enjoy,
	Armin
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 11:50:15PM -0700, service wrote:
> That worked. libexpt.so.6 was successfully installed.  Now I need 
> 'libc.so.5' and 'libm.so.2'.  Any idea where I can find these 2 files?  
> I tried 'pkg_info -L' on a lot of files with no luck.  i also went back 
> to my older releases with no luck also.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> bruce
> 
> Armin Arh wrote:
> 
> >Look for a package called 'expat-2.0.0'.
> >Once you got one look into it like this
> >
> >pkg_info -L expat-2.X.tar.gz
> >
> >It should then state there is a '/usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.6' in it.
> >If so, install it.
> >
> >Nevertheless this may fail if it uses some syscall of FBSD-5.5 not
> >present in FBSD5.4, but i don't think so.
> >
> >If all that fails, compile it yourself, like this:
> >
> >cd /usr/ports/textproc/expat2
> >make install && make clean
> >
> >
> >I have FreeBSD-6.2 running, but without expat2. My packages
> >still use expat1. Simply because i built every bit from ports,
> >to have no braindamage with precompiled stuff wanting newest
> >libraries.
> >
> >Looks like this on my Desktop:
> >----------------
> >armin at lance pkg_info -L /var/db/pkg/expat-1.95.8_3/
> >Information for expat-1.95.8_3:
> >
> >Files:
> >/usr/local/man/man1/xmlwf.1.gz
> >/usr/local/bin/xmlwf
> >/usr/local/include/expat.h
> >/usr/local/include/expat_external.h
> >/usr/local/lib/libexpat.a
> >/usr/local/lib/libexpat.so
> >/usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.5
> >
> >armin at lance ldconfig -r |grep expat
> >       438:-lexpat.5 => /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.5
> >       680:-lexpat.4 => /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.4
> >armin at lance uname -a
> >FreeBSD lance.net.schlund.de 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #8: Sun 
> >Nov 12 21:59:06 CET 2006     
> >god at lance.net.schlund.de:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LANCE  i386
> >----------------
> >
> >bye,
> >	Armin
> > 
> >
> 
>