Re: eclipse crashes on startup

[Eckhart Guthöhrlein <eckhart.guthoehrlein@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 07:56:30PM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> I was able to reproduce this with 1.4.1 now.
> 
> The problem is that Java (pre-1.4.2) picks up the wrong zlib functions
> when something brings in libz before Java loads its libzip.
> 
> You should be able to work-around the problem by starting eclipse like
> this:
> 
> % LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/lib/i386:/usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/lib/i386/client LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/j2se/1.4/jre/lib/i386/libzip.so eclipse

This works for the moment.

> Alternatively you could upgrade to 1.4.2-rc1 (see
> http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/jdk1.4-status.html),
> the functions have been internalized in that version and the problem
> should not occur anymore.

I will try this later.

Thank you very much for your help. I would not have come around this
alone. And of course, thanks of to the others who answered, too.

Have a nice weekend,
Eckhart