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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where is libc.so.3.0 for 2.1R ?
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 19:06:30 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Arlen Fletcher <fletcher@paccar.com>

Arlen Fletcher wrote:
> I recently bought an application from a vendor that converts databases
> to HTML searchable format.  They supported BSDi so I was hoping I'd
> get lucky and the software would run on our FreeBSD 2.1R systems.
> It didn't.  I asked the manufacturer if they would ever port the app

Probably a BSDI 2.0 binary, which we didn't support until later (2.1R
only supports BSDI 1.x binaries).

> FreeBSD and a week later they had!!
> 
> When I tried to run the app it complained with:
> 
> ld.so: bwsearch: Can't find shared library "libc.so.3.0"

Looks like they compiled it under 2.2-current - whoops!

You might get lucky if you simply copy (or link) libc.so.2.2 to
libc.so.3.0.

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project