OS check fails on JDK 1.4 & FreeBSD 5.4R

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On Wednesday 25 May 2005 22:34,  the author Scott I. Remick contributed to the 
dialogue on Re: OS check fails on JDK 1.4 & FreeBSD 5.4R:
& On Thu, 26 May 2005 00:25:02 -0600, Greg Lewis wrote:
&
& > So, if you manually do (in the jdk14 directory)
& >
& > gcc -lc_r -o work/testos files/testos.c
& >
& > (You may need to manually create the work directory if you've done a
& >  "make clean")
& >
& > What happens?  The only way the test can fail is if you can't compile
& > that programme.
&
& su-2.05b# gcc -lc_r -o work/testos files/testos.c
& /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc_r
&
& But does -lc_r signify libc_r? This is 5.4, so I don't have libc_r, I have
& libpthread.

What version of gcc do you have?
David

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