libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Sep 12), Ahmad Arafat Abdullah said:
> From: "Jonathan Horne" <freebsd at dfwlp.com>
> > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 21:01, Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote:
> > > freebsdmail# /usr/local/share/kav/5.5/kav4mailservers/bin/licensemanager
> > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libm.so.3" not found, required by
> > > "licensemanager"
> > 
> > cvsuping to -p6 wil not fix the problem.  i had the exact same
> > issue (except it was a list of 6 different .so files) getting the
> > NetBackup 5.1 agent for UNIX to run on freebsd.  my solution was as
> > simple as:
> > 
> > ln -s /lib/libm.so.4 /lib/libm.so.2
> > 
> > (NetBackup agent was looking for so.2)
> > 
> > so in your case, just symlink the existing .4 to a .3, and you
> > should be good to go.  backwards compatibility should not be an
> > issue.
> 
> TQ so much Jonathan..
> I've do link the libm.so and libc.so.

You don't want to do this.  Install the misc/compat5x port instead (and
install the misc/compat4x port if you need libm.so.2).

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com