Bug 21002

Summary: setiathome port has problems under clean 4.x install
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: sjr <sjr>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: freebsd-ports (Nobody) <ports>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description sjr 2000-09-03 02:00:01 UTC 
	The current build of SETI@home is only built for FreeBSD 3.3.
	For this to run under the 4.x releases, the compat3x.i386
	libraries need to be installed.

Fix: 

The preferred fix would be to build a version of SETI@home
	for 4.x. A secondary fix would be for the port to check for
	the installation of the compat3x.i386 libraries (specifically
	/usr/lib/compat/libc.so.3) and install them if necessary.
Comment 1 Steve Price freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-09-05 01:17:12 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports->stb

Over to port's maintainer.
Comment 2 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-01-27 04:42:25 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: stb->freebsd-ports

Inactive maintainer, someone else should look at this.
Comment 3 Cyrille Lefevre 2001-01-28 02:16:03 UTC 
this PR seems to be obsolete since the setiathome binary revision 3.03
is staticly linked, so, it doesn't require any compat libraries as the
revision 2.4 do.

about building setiathome from sources, it's a FAQ question.
it is not possible to build setiathome from sources since they
are not available. more information maybe found at :

	http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/faq.html

| Why don't you release the source code? 
| 
| We decided not to make source code available for security reasons
| and for science reasons as well. We have to have everyone do the
| exact same analysis, or we can't have any control over our research
| and be confident in our results.  We were also worried that there
| may be a few people that want to deliberately try to screw up our
| database and server.

about the installation of the compat3x libraries, don't know how to
do this using the ports system since compat* libraries aren't available
as port.

Cyrille.
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Comment 4 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-01-28 08:51:38 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Problem no longer applies.