ECLiPSe 3.7.1 / 4.0 does not work on SuSE Linux

From: Ingolf Markhof <markhof_at_ls12.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Mon 14 Sep 1998 01:07:52 PM GMT
Message-Id: <E0zIYny-0001Zj-00@passion.icparc.ic.ac.uk>
Dear Eclipse-Users,

I have a strange problem regarding ECLiPSe 3.7.1 and 4.0: These version
don't run on SuSE Linux 5.0 and 5.3. There is no problem to install
ECLiPSe, but when I trz to start the system, I only get a message:
"No such file or directory". Here is an example with ECLiPSe 3.7.1
/ SuSE Linux 5.0:

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im@orion 31> pwd
/usr/local/software/eclipse/3.7.1/bin/i386_linux

im@orion 32> ls -la
total 1062
drwxr-xr-x   2 software software     1024 Mar 24 17:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x   5 software software     1024 Feb 26 21:36 ../
-rwxr-xr-x   1 software software      380 Mar 24 17:10 eclipse*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 software software   938794 Mar 20 17:47 eclipse.exec*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 software software      295 Mar 24 16:49 eclipse.orig*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 software software   138079 Mar 20 17:48 nsrv*

im@orion 33> ./eclipse
./eclipse: /usr/local/software/eclipse/3.7.1/bin/i386_linux/eclipse.exec: No such file or directory
./eclipse: /usr/local/software/eclipse/3.7.1/bin/i386_linux/eclipse.exec: No such file or directory

im@orion 34> ./eclipse.exec
bash: ./eclipse.exec: No such file or directory

im@orion 35> file eclipse.exec
eclipse.exec: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked, not stripped
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It seems that ECLiPSe is trying to access a file that does not exist
on the expected place. But I have no idea which file it could be or
where it is expected by ECLiPSe.

Any pointers to solve this problem?

Best regards,
Ingolf.


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[ Moderators's note:
This problem occurs on Linux installations that are still based on
libc version 5. Eclipse is compiled for libc version 6, so you need
to get the newer libraries to run it. I have put a package with
the necessary files on our web site at
http://www.icparc.ic.ac.uk/eclipse/download/release/Support/linuxlibc6.tgz
It should be possible to add them to your /usr/lib directory without
disturbing other applications. Alternatively, you can install them
somewhere else and set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH correspondingly when
running eclipse.
]
Received on Mon Sep 14 14:42:56 1998

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