On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Tamer Ziady wrote:

> Running Sparc

From the error quoted, I gathered you were running aout libs on an elf
platform. I'm not hip to Sparc--this may not be the case at all.

> options         COMPAT_AOUT     # NetBSD a.out compatibility
> 
> 2) downloaded and installed base.tgz
> 
> 3) installed it in /aout

Only the libs.

> 4) rebuilt netatalk with /aout as root

That blows my whole theory away. :-)

If you're building it (as opposed to installing a binary package),
it's going to be the same file format as on your current system,
whatever that is.

> 5) Still getting the folling error:
> 
> [584]markus(/aout/usr/local/etc) # sh rc.atalk
> starting appletalk daemons:Shared object "libatalk.so.1" not found
>  atalkdShared object "libatalk.so.1" not found
> Shared object "libatalk.so.1" not found
>  nbprgstrShared object "libatalk.so.1" not found
>  papdShared object "libatalk.so.1" not found
>  afpd.
> 
> 6) and when I run ldconfig:
> 
> [586]markus(/aout/usr/local/etc) # ldconfig -mrv /aout/usr/local/lib/ |
> grep atalk
>         5:-latalk.1.0 => /usr/local/lib/libatalk.so.1.0

Sorry to lead you up a blind alley. If you can build netatalk from
source, then never mind about the emulation. As for the original
problem, I have no clue.