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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.250.118.17!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet From: "Ming Chu" <mingchu@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Emacs Date: 19 Apr 1997 06:20:29 GMT Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 37 Message-ID: <01bc4c8a$34ced7e0$5cc42299@beta> References: <slrn5kvtrt.4ec.beren@pe049.persbraten.vgs.no> <5j4i1p$sjc$14@easystreet03> NNTP-Posting-Host: cust92.max29.san-francisco2.ca.ms.uu.net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39334 tedm@portsoft.com wrote in article <5j4i1p$sjc$14@easystreet03>... > 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. > I'm having the same problems. What commands should I type exactly? and which compatability libraries do I need? Thanks.