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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Xfree Installation??
Date: 7 Jul 1996 16:51:01 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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References: <1996Jul7.115018.25087@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de>
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In article <1996Jul7.115018.25087@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de>,
Stephan Forth <stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> wrote:
>
>I set up my laptop using FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP. Now I tried
>to install XFree. But after I followed all the instructions
>in /cdrom/dists/XF86312/Readme and tried to config all the stuff
>with xf86config, I only got: ld.so: missing libc.so.2.2

The version number of the shared libraries has been bumped to 3.0 in
-current, but it looks as though your xf86config was compiled on an
old system. As root, do

# cd /usr/lib
# ln -s libc.so.3.0 libc.so.2.2
# ldconfig -m /usr/lib

and then it should work.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/