At 2:28pm today, Erik Trulsson wrote: ET> The misc/compat[345]x ports, are what you are supposed to use. The ET> libraries included in the misc/compat3x port does appear to have some ET> security problems that nobody has fixed, and the port is therefore ET> marked FORBIDDEN. (I don't think there are many (if any) FreeBSD ET> developers who still care about 3.x, so it seems unlikely that those ET> security problems will be fixed any time soon (if ever).) ET> ET> > So, the question: how do I get libc.so.3 on my FreeBSD 6.x system? ET> ET> misc/compat3x ET> If you are not worried about the scurity holes with that you should be ET> able to just comment out the FORBIDDEN line in the port's Makefile and ET> install the port.
I'm in the unfortunate position of being worried about the security holes but also needing the compat3x libraries (for an old, closed-source binary), so I guess I don't really have much of a choice. Thanks, Erik. -Jonathan. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
