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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What happend to libmp in 2.2-ALPHA ?
Date: 5 Dec 1996 23:38:41 -0000
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In article <nGuWw6M@quack.kfu.com>,
	nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:
: Um... I just installed 2.2-ALPHA (did a make world on a formerly
: 960801 system). Now one of the programs fails looking for _mult,
: which is present in libmp.so.2.0 but not in libmp.so.3.0. So now
: I'm reduced to using LD_PRELOAD to run this program, forcing the
: 2.0 version of libmp. Not good. Has _mult been renamed or something?

I havn't looked at 2.2-alpha (I'm dialup, too expensive), but I've been
stung before by overwriting a previous /usr/src.  It's best to remove
(or move) the old /usr/src before unpacking and building a new system.

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Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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