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From: tedm@portsoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Emacs
Date: 17 Apr 1997 07:04:25 GMT
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In <slrn5kvtrt.4ec.beren@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no>, beren@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no (Niklas Saers) writes:
>
>Hi.. I've installed emacs on my computer, by a FreeBSD package. But when I
>run it, it sais it can't find libgcc.so.261.0 
>My question is: Where can I find this? And I've noticed that quite many
>packages ask for *.so.* -files which I don't have from time to time, but
>which I've downloaded from different servers. Where should I get them at
>usual?

Probably the best thing you could do is to complain to the author of the
package or port and remind them to put a dependency line in their installation
package that will signal the user when they install the package to also
install the other packages needed.

In any case, this particular one I believe is part of the compatability
libraries, just install them and add the compatability library directory to
your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environmental variable.

Emacs seems to be a particularly bad offender, the latest emacs package seems to
require a library out of X windows, believe it or not.  I think there've been a 
few packages of it in the past that required Motif libraries as well.