configure: error: JDK is too old, you need at least 1.5

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Guoqin Ren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got the error message repeatedly when I tried to build openoffice3.  I 
> have diablo-jdk16 and diablo-jre16 installed on FreeBSD 8 beta 3.
> **checking the installed JDK... configure: error: JDK is too old, you 
> need at least 
> 1.5                                                                          

I had this problem.  It was solved by the command:

echo libz.so.4 libz.so.5 > /etc/libmap.conf

The problem is that you are using a diablo-jdk16 that was built for 
FreeBSD-7x, and the library versions have been bumped for FreeBSD-8x.