libm.so.3 on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Sep 12 20:46:21 PDT 2006


On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:23:46PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote:

> 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.

That's a bogus hack; the libraries are not compatible or they'd have
the same version!

Just install the relevant compat package (compat4x/compat5x).

Kris
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