Problems with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:

> In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said:
> > so various ports, in particular the java ports, are giving me headaches
> > since /lib/libz.so.5 was replaced by /lib/libz.so.6.  I managed to update
> > most of my ports, but the binary java ports, such as diablo-jdk16, are
> now
> > installing broken binary files.  Even if I put an entry such as
> >
> > libz.so.4 libz.so.6
> >
> > in /etc/libmap.conf
>
> libmap (or symlinking) only works for libraries that have a compatible ABI.
> The version number of libz was bumped precisely because the ABI changed :)
>
> Install the misc/compat8x port to get libz.so.5 back until you can replace
> diablo-jdk16 with openjdk6.
>
> --
>        Dan Nelson
>        dnelson at allantgroup.com
>

Hi,

sorry I tried to install compat8x but it did not solve the problem, as that
package does not install libz.so.5

Thanks