Candidate for most silly question, but here it goes:

[Fernando Apesteguía]

El mar., 4 may. 2021 17:57, Arthur Chance <freebsd at qeng-ho.org> escribió:

> On 04/05/2021 08:40, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > #> file /usr/lib/libc.so
> > /usr/lib/libc.so: ASCII text
> >
> >
> > #> cat /usr/lib/libc.so
> > /* $FreeBSD$ */
> > GROUP ( /lib/libc.so.7 /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a )
> >
> >
> > Does this make sense in any way?
>

It looks like a GNU ld linker script:
https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/ld-2.9.1/html_chapter/ld_3.html

>
> > Accidentally stumbled across while trying out thunderbird, which claims:
> > JavaScript error: resource:///modules/CLib.jsm, line 46: Error: couldn't
> > open library libc.so: /usr/lib/libc.so: invalid file format
> >
> >
> > Thanks for hints (I have some brief knwoledge about dynamically linked
> > binaries, but I'm not aware of linker hints - which is what I see to my
> > understanding).
>
> I have no idea about /usr/lib/libc.so but libc is actually in /lib. On
> my 12.2-REL system
>
> root at nas:0# file /lib/libc.so*
> /lib/libc.so.7: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1
> (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, stripped
>
>
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