Subject: Re: oracle8i: missing linux functions?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/13/2001 19:00:49
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 06:00:09AM +0930, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> I'd a go at installing oracle8i on a NetBSD-1.5V-i386 system resulting
> in the following error:
> 
> bash-2.04$ Initializing Java Virtual Machine from
> ../stage/Components/oracle.swd.jre/1.1.8/1/DataFiles/Expanded/linux/bin/jre.
> Please wait...
> ldt_clear: modify_ldt: Function not implemented
> ldt_setup: modify_ldt: Function not implemented

Oh, good God -- what's Oracle's JRE doing that it needs to whack the LDT?

ISTR someone (Todd?) having gotten Oracle 8i to run okay by forcing it to
run with our native 1.1.8 JRE.  You might want to try that (and if it
works, please document how you did it!).

Thor