[M3devel] Installation difficulties in FreeBSD 8.1 x86

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Michael Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com>:

> On 22 August 2010 22:43, Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com> wrote:
>
>> AFAIK FreeBSD always offered so-called compatibility distributions,
>> which contain all old libraries of previous systems. You should be
>> able to install these with the FreeBSD installer and then run cm3
>> and build your own binary which uses the up-to-date libs.
>>
>
> I'm looking at FreeBSD.org and I'm not seeing anything like that at all.
>  Sysintall doesn't offer anything like that under "distributions" either.
>  Sorry for being such a newb here, but I really have no idea where to even
> LOOK for the next step.

I think this may be of help:

luthien [] root
# ls -ld /usr/ports/misc/compat?x
drwxrwxr-x  3 root    wheel  512 May 25 05:23 /usr/ports/misc/compat3x/
drwxrwxr-x  3 root    wheel  512 Aug 22 05:23 /usr/ports/misc/compat4x/
drwxrwxr-x  3 root    wheel  512 Aug 22 05:23 /usr/ports/misc/compat5x/
drwxrwxr-x  3 root    wheel  512 Dec  6  2009 /usr/ports/misc/compat6x/
drwxr-xr-x  3 wagner  wheel  512 Dec  8  2009 /usr/ports/misc/compat7x/
luthien [] root
# cat /usr/ports/misc/compat6x/pkg-descr
This package allows you to install the compat6x libraries on your
system, so you can use legacy binaries that depend on them.

Ports usage example:

--
.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>

.if ${OSVERSION} >= 700043
LIB_DEPENDS+=   c.6:${PORTSDIR}/misc/compat6x
.endif
--

Olaf
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