Hey, I had the same problem as you when trying to install the JDK. I spent about two full days on it, but I eventually got things working. Hrmmmm....now..how did I do it? I think, first of all you have to get the new/fixed libc's from redhat (ftp.redhat.com/????/updates?/i386/ or something). Basically, out of shear frustration, I ended up simply downloading ALL of the new library's. Hrmmmm.....Next I got lesstif (0.81 I think), but that shouldn't matter anyhow, because you can get a staticly linked jdk - mine is linked with lesstif (I'm pretty sure....), and has a few little bugs, but works fairly well. Anyhow, I'll see if I can send you the output of my ldconfig. The only JDK that would work was JDK1.1.5v5-980311, and I believe I got it from www.blackdown.org (Steve Byrne's port). Try the README.linux for linking with Motif - it is pretty important to get that right for AWT stuff. I haven't tried the jdk1.1.5v7 yet, so I couldn't say what you'll run into with that. I hope this helps (or at least points you in the right direction). KF On Sun, 10 May 1998, cdrobert wrote: > Hi > > I was wondering if you could perhaps point me in the right direction. I > am looking for a good How-To or Newsgroup where I can > figure out how to get Java running on RH5. I've followed your mailing > lists for sometime but I'm less interested in development than > just trying to get the thing to work in the first place. I want to use > the JDK based ports, not Kaffe if at all possible. I had no problem > at all while under RH4.2 but everything got 10X harder when using 5. If > you know of any good sites or newsgroups that I can > read... please let me know. Thanx. > > C. Roberts. > > >
