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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: jdk on freebsd
Message-ID: <1997Jan3.210407.2211@wavehh.hanse.de>
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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 97 21:04:07 GMT
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Curt Finch <curt@tkg.com> writes:

>On FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE the JDK i have problems, such as 

>    ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libc.so.3.0"

>i have no such libc on my box.  The readme says

>	Q: Which version of FreeBSD does this work on?
>	A: I run the -current version of FreeBSD, so that's the 
>		only version which I've verified.

>What version do i need to upgrade to to make this work?  'current'
>changes doesn't it?

>What is the lowest level release that jdk works on?   does anyone
>know?  I'm not sure if i should go to 2.2 yet since it's still beta.

Recently the 2.1.x-branch had the neccessary code added in libc to run
the JDK. I don' know when exactly it was introduced, but 2.1.5 doesn't
work and it should on 2.1.6[.1], which is a formal release and solid.

To run the JDK in such an environment, create a symbolic link in
/usr/lib "ln -s libc.so.2.2 libc.so.3.0".

Let me know if you need more help.

Martin
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