Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-dev

From: David Chamberlain <daybird@g.o>
To: gentooppc-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentooppc-dev] ld.so and other packages seem to be defect...
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 19:08:10
Message-Id: 3CC75793.2030209@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentooppc-dev] ld.so and other packages seem to be defect... by Kain
1 Without knowing what it was, I asked Pieter to put ld.so back in,
2 because kde3 depends on it. If it's a binary pkg, then obviously kde3
3 doesn't really need it, so I guess we should just remove the depend from
4 our version of kde3.
5
6 David
7
8 Kain wrote:
9
10 >On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 07:23:34PM +0200, Olivier Reisch wrote:
11 >
12 >>Mark Guertin and I noticed that doing an ldconfig returns a couple of library
13 >>errors:
14 >>
15 >>ibook ld.so # ldconfig
16 >>ldconfig: /lib/ld-linux.so.1.9.11 is not a shared object file (Type: 768).
17 >>ldconfig: /lib/libdl.so.1.9.11 is not a shared object file (Type: 768).
18 >>[ old X86 linux-libs stuff skipped ]
19 >>
20 >
21 >That would be because ld.so is a *compatibility* package for really old (i.e.
22 >libc5) software. The ld.so that we grabbed from gentoo-x86 is an x86 binary
23 >distro of these libs basically. (they really are a big pain in the ass to
24 >rebuild). If someone has a really old netscape (or something) binary they want
25 >to run, feel free to make PPC versions of these packages.. otherwise, these
26 >should be masked back out like they originally were. Is there even software
27 >this old for PPCLinux?
28 >