Re: problems w/ Java on Alpha

[Bart Warmerdam <bartw@xs4all.nl>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 02:46:11PM +0100, Gustaf Erikson wrote:
> I've downloaded the Compaq beta SDK from
> 
> http://www.compaq.com/java/download/jdk_linux/1.3.1/index.html
> 
> I converted the RPM's to debs with alien, and installed them in the
> order described in the instructions.
> 
> However, when I try checking if java works, I get:
> 
> [ger@rhino:~ ]$ /usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin/java -version
> /usr/java/jdk1.3.1/bin/alpha/native_threads/java: error in loading shared libraries: libcpml.so: cannot read file data: No such file or directory
> 
> 'libcpml.so' is one of the libs installed. It lives in /usr/lib: 
> 
> [ger@rhino:~ ]$ ls -l /usr/lib/libcpml.*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 307      root           33 Mar 19 23:45 /usr/lib/libcpml.a -> ./compaq/cpml-5.1.0/libcpml_ev5.a
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 307      root           34 Mar 19 23:45 /usr/lib/libcpml.so -> ./compaq/cpml-5.1.0/libcpml_ev5.so
> 

You need to download the cmpl (math lib) as well from Compaq and deb them as
well. Use the 'with script' option in alien (-g afaik) to generate postinst as
well. They create the actual .a file for the libs.

Cheers,

B.