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From: stephen farrell <sfarrell@phaedrus.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: JAVA and FreeBSD 2.1
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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:04:07 GMT
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Curt Finch <curt@pnk.com> writes:

> 
> David Hyatt wrote:
> > 
> >  I am trying to set up the JDK under FreeBSD 2.1... when I try typing
> > 
> > java <filename>
> > 
> > I am told that the file ld.so is not found.  It doesn't appear to be
> > on my
> > system anywhere.  How do I go about getting this file?  Or is there
> > something else I'm missing?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> > (d-hyatt@cs.uiuc.edu)
> > 
> 
> i had a similar problem but i think it was asking for somelibrary.so.3
> i had a somelibrary.so.2, just did a symlink between them and
> it all worked.  maybe such a hack can work for you too?

actually completely off the top of my head, it sounds like he might
have gotten the linux jdk... why else would it be looking for ld.so;
if you can't find ld.so you've got bigger problems then jdk not
working...