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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: No emacs after 2.1.5R install
Date: 30 Jul 1996 15:55:17 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4tj0l5$24nb@fidoii.cc.lehigh.edu>,
Stephen Corbesero <flash@EECS.Lehigh.EDU> wrote:
>
>I loaded emacs-19.31 from the packages, and when I try to run it I get
>the message 
>  ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libgcc.so.261.0"
>
>I assume this is supposed to be in /usr/lib.  The static libgcc.a is
>there, but no .so/.sa files.  Why would this be missing and where can
>I get it w/o recompiling gcc and/or emacs?

Apparently some of the 2.1.5 packages were linked on a system that
had some old libraries lurking around on it.  If you install the
emacs port, it should work OK.

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