libpthread not found

[m.borsatino at alice.it]

amm ... when I change the 'candidate' something strange begins to happen: bash doesn't work anymore, saying that it does not find the library. this happens as soon as I do the change, showing what you've explained to me.

Marco

> thanks ... but ... how?
> now I don't get the first message; but the second tells me that a library
> is missing, but it is present. anyway I' prepared a very simple
> /etc/libmap.conf like this:
> 
> # /etc/libmap.conf
> #
> # candidate             mapping
> #
> libc.so.6 		/usr/compat/linux/lib/libc.so.6

Change to:

libc.so.6			libc.so.7
 
> but clearly this is not enough. should I restart the system or use a
> program to make the change accepted?
> 

No need, it is picked up the next time the libmap.conf file is parsed.

What is occurring is the java binary was built against libc.so.6, which is 
what you would find on a FreeBSD 6.x box. 

-Mike