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

[Pierre-Luc Drouin]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin at pldrouin.net>wrote:

> 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
>

Sorry it did install libz.so.5, but diablo-jdk16 is still crashing for some
reason...