I am trying to run a 3rd-party closed-source app on NetBSD 2.0.2. It
is linked with libstdcso.4, which is not present on my system. Is
there a compatibility package somewhere that I can install?
I'm a complete newbie to NetBSD, by the way. I've been using Linux
for many years, but I don't yet know much about NetBSD's packaging
system.
Thanks for your help,
- Adam

Adam Fineman <adam.fineman <atgmail.comwrites:

I am trying to run a 3rd-party closed-source app on NetBSD 2.0.2. It
is linked with libstdcso.4, which is not present on my system. Is
there a compatibility package somewhere that I can install?
<snip>

I forgot to mention, I do have libstdcso.5. I just need the older library to
run this 3rd-party app. I assume it must be available in some package for
NetBSD, but I haven't found it yet.

Thanks again,
- Adam

Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Adam Fineman wrote:

I am trying to run a 3rd-party closed-source app on NetBSD 2.0.2. It
is linked with libstdcso.4, which is not present on my system. Is
there a compatibility package somewhere that I can install?

libstdcso.4 is from NetBSD 1.6.x

I will let someone else answer about using it or if it is needed with
2.0.2.

I assume you could extract the needed libraries from a NetBSD 1.6.2
tarfile.

I'm a complete newbie to NetBSD, by the way. I've been using Linux
for many years, but I don't yet know much about NetBSD's packaging
system.

Jeremy C. Reed

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7/13/05, Jeremy C. Reed <reed (AT) reedmedia (DOT) netwrote:
Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Adam Fineman wrote:

I am trying to run a 3rd-party closed-source app on NetBSD 2.0.2. It
is linked with libstdcso.4, which is not present on my system. Is
there a compatibility package somewhere that I can install?

libstdcso.4 is from NetBSD 1.6.x

Thanks. I did find it there, but I'm not sure of the best way to
install it on 2.0.x.

I will let someone else answer about using it or if it is needed with
2.0.2.

It is only needed if one wants to run an app that is dynamically
linked with it, which is true in my case.

I assume you could extract the needed libraries from a NetBSD 1.6.2
tarfile.

Would I have to build the library from source, or is there a
pre-compiled package that contains libstdcso.4 that would not
conflict with anything on my 2.0.2 distribution? I want to avoid
building from source in this case, because I don't want to have to
build the entire g++ package from 1.6.2 if I don't have to, especially
if it might corrupt my existing runtime libraries.

Also, is there some utility in NetBSD that would allow me to search
for a package that provides a particular file?

Thanks for your response,
- Adam

Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:43:21PM -0500, Dave Huang wrote:
Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:55:35PM +0000, Adam Fineman wrote:
I forgot to mention, I do have libstdcso.5. I just need the older library to
run this 3rd-party app. I assume it must be available in some package for
NetBSD, but I haven't found it yet.

Yes, it's in the emulators/netbsd32_compat16 package.

Whoops, I mean emulators/compat16 the netbsd32 one is only for
running 32-bit apps on a 64-bit.

7/13/05, Dave Huang <khym (AT) azeotrope (DOT) orgwrote:
Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:43:21PM -0500, Dave Huang wrote:
Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:55:35PM +0000, Adam Fineman wrote:
I forgot to mention, I do have libstdcso.5. I just need the older library to
run this 3rd-party app. I assume it must be available in some package for
NetBSD, but I haven't found it yet.

Yes, it's in the emulators/netbsd32_compat16 package.

Whoops, I mean emulators/compat16 the netbsd32 one is only for
running 32-bit apps on a 64-bit.

Thanks, Dave. Exactly what I'm looking for.
- Adam

Wednesday 13 July 2005 12:30, Adam Fineman wrote:
7/13/05, Jeremy C. Reed <reed (AT) reedmedia (DOT) netwrote:
Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Adam Fineman wrote:
I am trying to run a 3rd-party closed-source app on NetBSD 2.0.2.
It is linked with libstdcso.4, which is not present on my
system. Is there a compatibility package somewhere that I can
install?

libstdcso.4 is from NetBSD 1.6.x

Thanks. I did find it there, but I'm not sure of the best way to
install it on 2.0.x.

Install /usr/pkgsrc/emulators/compat16

and then you *may* have to:

ln -s / \
/usr/lib/libstdcso.4

It is only needed if one wants to run an app that is dynamically
linked with it, which is true in my case.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the NetBSD compatibility translation
stuff works for these libraries via the compat16 package. I think that
those just install the files: sometimes actually using them requires
symlinks unfortunately.

Also, is there some utility in NetBSD that would allow me to search
for a package that provides a particular file?

pkg_info -F /path/to/file

might give you what you're looking for.