I am currently tracking this as Bug#30427 with Debian. However, it might be possible (short of a dumb mistake on my part) that there is also a JDK problem in the DLL loading/libc6 (libc_nonshared.a) handling hidden here. You get half a dozen files, as http://www.netaccess.ie/~bk/statest.tgz Most notably a Test.java to prove that JDK 1.1.7v1a fails on System.loadLibrary(), if not hacked with -lreadline, and a README that lists the entire story with respect to the way libc6 is supposed to work. I'll try to get this into Jitterbug, but as I have to cycle to town for some not too reliable Internet access, I might not be able to accomodate you. b. P.S.: "slink" was in a pretty grim state last week (they broke libstdc+ and libc6, up to a point where dpkg ceased to work for some people), but I managed to get JDK117v1a Invocation to work under circumstances where it always failed before. Good news! Maybe JDK 1.2 and Debian 2.1 will finally get me back on track.
