Re: java.home

[Geoff Beaumont <Geoff@stormhammer.com>]

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 19:23, Juergen Kreileder wrote:
> Geoff Beaumont <Geoff@stormhammer.com> writes:
> I think you mean /usr/lib/j2re1.3.

That'd be the one...

> The problem is that /usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/jre is a symlink to
> /usr/lib/j2re1.3 and due to realpath we end up with the latter for
> java.home.  This breaks applications which try to run
> e.g. {java.home}/../bin/javac as /usr/lib/j2re1.3/../bin/javac
> (i.e. /usr/lib/bin/javac) does not exist.
8<
> We have new packages which use a different directory layout and fix
> this problem.  The new packages should be on the mirrors soon.

Cool. Glad it's not just me. I'll keep an eye out for them then.

Thanks.

-- 
Geoff Beaumont
Geoff@stormhammer.com


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