ghostview missing libc.so.4?

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:33:34PM -0800, paul beard wrote:
> 
> On Dec 27, 2003, at 10:27 PM, Chip Wiegand wrote:
> 
> >Mine has libc.so.5. No wonder the app is failing, it specifically 
> >wants .4 and is too dumb to work with anything newer. I'm getting real 
> >frustrated with this again, I'd like to move away from MS but it's not 
> >easy to do when the apps I need don't even work properly.
> 
> You could fake it out with a symlink, but the Real Solution may be to 
> rebuild whatever that file is part of, which I assume means a 
> buildworld.

No -- don't do that.  Shlib version numbers are changed for a reason.

Instead either install the misc/compat4x port or else set COMPAT4X=yes
in /etc/make.conf and rebuild your world.  This will let you run apps
compiled for 4.x on a 5.x system.
 
> I'm only running 4.9: I assume you're on 5.x if you have a higher file 
> number?

Yes -- for libc the shlib version number is the same as the major
version number of the OS.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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