Re: Use of update-alternatives or JAVA_HOME (was: Experience in converting to GCJ)
On Monday 11 August 2003 23:33, Michael R Head wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 17:37, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:40:11PM -0400, Michael R Head wrote:
> >
> >
> > Which is something that Unix users have been able to do since the dawn of
> > time, in a more generic way, with a different environment variable
> > (namely PATH).
>
> I agree 100%. However, this is a feature provided by using JAVA_HOME and
> not by alternatives.
>
> > I don't follow. To use a package with a particular JDK, you point it to
> > that particular JDK. alternatives provide a list of available JDKs, as
> > well as a default for the system.
>
> It provides a list of jdks that the system administrator decided to
> enter into the alternatives database. This won't (at the very least)
> include user installed JDKs.
>
> > What do is missing that can't be addressed by alternatives and PATH?
>
> Nothing at all.
>
> I was just trying to provide you with an example or two of how the
> alternatives tool _itself_ doesn't solve all the problems (which, I
> thought, is what you were asking for in the post I replied to).
>
> But let me point out that I was just playing devil's advocate to support
> Jan's point of view. I use alternatives to point to
> /usr/local/lib/java/bin/java and set JAVA_HOME to /usr/local/lib/java in
> my /etc/environment. This solves all my problems (and my users'
> problems, AFAIK) perfectly.
>
> mike
>
> > --
> > - mdz
>
> --
> Michael R Head <burner@suppressingfire.org>
> http://suppressingfire.org/~burner/gpg.key.txt
So what should the JAVA_HOME value be for GCJ?
David
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