Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sunday 14 May 2006 12:10, Dan Strick wrote: > Is this the official work-around? I see that there are also compat4x > and compat3x ports in /usr/ports/misc. Is 1x, 20, 21, and 22 > compatibility support gone forever? (Not that I would miss it. I only > need 4x and 5x compatibility.) It isn't

Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 19:40:35 -0700 (PDT) > From: Dan Strick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [I may have missed some responses to my original posting because the > "current" set of postings has been cleaned out but not yet installed > in the mailing list archive.] > > I ju

Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Dan Strick
[I may have missed some responses to my original posting because the "current" set of postings has been cleaned out but not yet installed in the mailing list archive.] I just installed FreeBSD 6.1, selecting "All" in the distributions selection menu, and discovered that the compat* distributions a

Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 13 May 2006 20:59, Dan Strick wrote: > When I attempt to run a program compiled on release 5.4 under > release 6.1, the system complains that it cannot find libc.so.5. > On my release 5.4 system, /usr/lib/compat contains old shared > libraries. On my release 6.1 system, /usr/lib/compat

old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1

2006-05-13 Thread Dan Strick
I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 and had no problems during the basic installation. I did a "Custom" install and seleced "All" in the "Choose Distributions" menu. When I attempt to run a program compiled on release 5.4 under release 6.1, the system complains that it cannot find libc.so.5. On my relea