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

Pierre-Luc Drouin pldrouin at pldrouin.net
Fri Jan 27 15:41:48 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin at pldrouin.net>wrote:

>
>
> 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...
>

Ok, so I installed linux-sun-jdk16 that does not seem to get broken by
FreeBSD 9, then I hacked the port Makefile for openjdk16 to bootstrap
itself with linux-sun-jdk16 and so far it seems to be compiling fine...


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