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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: jdk on freebsd
Message-ID: <1997Jan6.154825.17815@wavehh.hanse.de>
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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
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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?

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