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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where to get libc.so.3.0 for i386/FreeBSD2.1.5?
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 20:41:46 +0000
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Jerome (Jerry) Schneider wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to get the java jdk102 port from freefall.freebsd.org
> to run on our web server, which runs FreeBSD 2.1.5.  When java
> starts up, it tries to link the shared library libc.so.3.0, and
> fails since we only have /usr/lib/libc.so.2.2.
> 
> I imagine this is a gnu libc library, but rather than building
> the entire gnu distribution, I'm hoping there is someplace with
> the FreeBSD/i386 versions of the shared libs available for ftp.
> 

You can symlink libc.so.3.0 to libc.so.2.2 -- I had to do this for a few
packages I've loaded, and it works fine. Apparently 3.0 actually *drops*
a routine no longer needed, but doesn't add any new ones.
-- 
Ken

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