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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!agate!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: libc.so.3.0 ????? Where the hell can i get this library? Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 10:52:19 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 43 Message-ID: <323A8E63.6338@www.play-hookey.com> References: <3239C61B.7C84@oliverdesign.com> <3239AE71.2709@www.play-hookey.com> <323AB9D7.41C67EA6@servtech.com> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Shawn Carey wrote: > > Ken Bigelow wrote: > > > > User wrote: > > > > > > Yikes! > > > > > > I installed qpop and it refuses to work without the shared library > > > libc.so.3.0 the problem is that I don't know where to get the > > > update. Can someone help me out? > > > > > > [...] > > > > Repeat # 85451568657 of this question. the qpop package is from the > > -current distribution, while you are still running either 2.1.0 or 2.1.5 > > release, with libc.so.2.2 . What you need to do is create a symlink > > pointing libc.so.3.0 to your existing libc.so.2.2 . Also remember to > > uncomment the pop3 line at the bottom of /etc/inetd.conf to enable the > > pop server. That's all I did and it works fine. > > -- > > > > Is this really OK to do? I thought it was safe to "symlink-upgrade" for > minor number changes, but potentially disastrous for major number > changes. > As I said above, I did it and it works. That's the primary test in any such situation. However, if you can't accept the truth of an observed fact without an explanation, one of the FreeBSD development team (I think it was Jordan Hubbard, but not entirely sure) indicated that the number change was needed because two functions were *deleted* from this library. As a result, nothing in 2.2 was modified, nor was anything added to form 3.0. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |