Re: compatibility of versions.

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 05:57:24AM -0700, peter%easthope.ca@localhost wrote:
> sparc2# pkg_add libX11
> pkg_add: Warning: package `libX11-1.6.2' was built for a platform:
> pkg_add: NetBSD/sparc 6.0 (pkg) vs. NetBSD/sparc 6.1.4 (this host)
> pkg_add: Warning: package `libxcb-1.9.3' was built for a platform:
> pkg_add: NetBSD/sparc 6.0 (pkg) vs. NetBSD/sparc 6.1.4 (this host)
> sparc2# pkg_add libX11
> pkg_add: package `libX11-1.6.2' already recorded as installed
> 
> Suggests that libX11 might work ... but an attempt to run bochs gives this.
> 
> >>PANIC<< dlopen failed for module 'x': Shared object "libX11.so.7"
> 
> Is this a consequence of 6.0 <> 6.1.4?

no, packages built for 6.0 should also run on 6.1 (that's why we don't
provide different packages).

> Something more obscure?

I guess bochs has been built against the native libX11, not the pkgsrc one.
So you should install the xbase.tgz set from the base system.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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