Lib Errors After 6.3 - 7 Update

[Kris Kennaway]

Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 4:20 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 04 March 2008 3:32 pm, Robert Davison wrote:
>>>> I've tried to update 6.3 to 7 using the sh freebsd-update.sh -f
>>>> freebsd-update.conf -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade process. I thought all had
>>>> gone well untill I started getting lib-XXX.so4 missing file here and
>>>> libphp.so missing there. I'm guessing that the update process has
>>>> deleatd some shared libararies which are still required.
>>>>
>>>> I have the files in question, but instead of XXX.so.4, the file is
>>>> called XXX.so.5
>>>>
>>>> I followed the instructions to the 'T' but nothing seems to work i.e
>>>> MailScanner, apache etc.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried portupgrade -af to see if I can link the ports to the new lib
>>>> files, but alas nothing.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone got any ideas??
>>> Perhaps someone has a better suggestion for you, but I had a similar
>>> issue with regard to installing VMware Tools.  In my case, I symlinked
>>> libc.so.5 linked to libc.so.6, and the VMware Tools installation
>>> proceeded.
>> Ah yes, I forgot about bogus advice option 2 :-)
>>
>> Kris
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> As I said, someone might have a better suggestion, as I'm a relative noob.  My 
> point was to try symlinking your needed library file to that which you find 
> on your system.  I'd think it'd be worth a try.  But, hey, if it's bogus 
> advice (option 2  :-)  ), then best of luck.
> 

The reason it's bogus is because we change library versions for good 
reason: they are incompatible.

Sometimes they are incompatible in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle 
ways.  If you need libc.so.5 to run a FreeBSD 5.x binary, install the 
compat5x port.  That is not the solution for the OP though, because at 
this point he has binaries with an inconsistent set of libraries that 
needs to be fixed by moving them all to 7.0.

Kris