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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.dkrz.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!news.Hanse.DE!wavehh.hanse.de!cracauer From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Subject: Re: jdk on freebsd Message-ID: <1997Jan6.154825.17815@wavehh.hanse.de> Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Organization: '(a (cons structive organization)) References: <32CC0F8D.41C67EA6@tkg.com> <1997Jan3.210407.2211@wavehh.hanse.de> <32CFFCEE.41C67EA6@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 97 15:48:25 GMT Lines: 39 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33710 Curt Finch <curt@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com> writes: >Martin Cracauer wrote: >> >> 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". >Thanks Martin, >Someone else mentioned some freebsd mailing list archives, where are >those? www.freebsd.org -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin_Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de http://cracauer.cons.org Fax.: +4940 5228536 "As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't ex- plain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway"- Calvin