> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:29:12AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:23:23AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > >
> > > > The problem is that libtermcap.so, still hanging around, is used by things
> > > > that don't usually get rebuilt in a buildworld/installworld run (like X11
> > > > tools like xterm)- and attempts to use such things yield:
> > >
> > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 12 Feb 23 00:55 /usr/lib/libtermcap.a ->
>libncurses.a
> > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Feb 23 00:55 /usr/lib/libtermcap.so ->
>libncurses.so
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 15160 Apr 24 2000 /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2
> > > l
> > >
> > > Remove your stale libraries - this one went away before 4.0-REL.
> >
> > ...Which then also begs the question- if I put this all into /usr/lib/compat-
> > and libtermcap.so still whines about missing __stderr- is this a "we don't
> > care- it's too old"?
>
> You shouldn't be building new binaries which link against libtermcap
> (i.e. this should never happen) - it's only there for existing
> binaries which would be linked against libc.so.3 also (both of which
> are under compat/) and should continue to work.
Yeah, okay- thanks!
apparently the symlink to libncuruses works- so old X11 binaries work with
libc.so.3 in /usr/lib/compat
Whew! THanks! I didn't wanna have to rebuild all that goop...
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