Linux compat broken??

Don Lewis truckman at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 24 20:30:03 PDT 2003


On 24 Apr, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 9:09 PM +0200 4/24/03, Joris Vandalon wrote:
>>Hi there,
>>
>>sinds I updated my kernel and world yesterday i seem to have
>>troubles with my linux browsers  (linux-netscape7 and
>>linux-phoenix), they freeze for no apperent reason.
>>
>>are there more people experiencing this problems?

Acrobat Reader 5.0 seems to work on my -current box that was updated a
few hours ago.

> For what it's worth, I tried to install java on my freebsd-current
> system today.  (my first attempt to install it in a few years).
> For that, I first have to install the linux-sun-jdk, which uses
> linux-compat and linux_base-7.
> 
> Those initial steps for installing went OK, but my attempts to
> install jdk14 (freebsd-native java) do hang.  It seems that they
> hang when executing the command:
>    /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.1/bin/java -version

I installed jdk14 four days ago.  It sure took a long time to build, so
I don't plan on trying again anytime soon.


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