Re: findjava requirement
--- Ean Schuessler <ean@brainfood.com> wrote:
> I'm still not clear on why we cannot require every VM to provide a more
> specifically detailed version of the JAVA_HOME ad hoc standard. We
> should have a document that lists all of the $JAVA_HOME/bin/..foo..
> $JAVA_HOME/lib/..bar.. locations that Debian Java packages expect to be
> provided. Then, JAVA_HOME itself can be handled using alternatives and
> live at /usr/lib/jvm[jre,gnuvm,etc.].
I think that JAVA_HOME is quite pointless, as the only good use for it seems to
be to locate JNI headers. It's an ill-defined ad-hoc 'standard' that isn't even
supported by Sun. Programs that rely on JAVA_HOME to be able to access
internals of the VM are inherently broken, they just start to notice it on free
VMs ;)
cheers,
dalibor topic
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