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From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: JAVA and FreeBSD 2.1
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 18:02:21 -0500
Organization: RingZero Computing
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Curt Finch wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

Remember that the JDK (1.0.2) is only "supported" under 2.2 and beyond.
It's quite probably that it's just an older shared library blowing
you up though - check in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib and see if
it's just a version thing...

-Mark

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> | Curt Finch    Phoenix Net-Tek LLC    curt@pnk.com      512-795-0709 |
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