JDK 1.5 interesting behavior...

[Sam Lawrance]

>On 25 January, 2005, at 11:46 (-0700)
>Matt Meola <mmeola at vericept.com <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java>> wrote:
>
>>/ I can't get java to run unless I use the absolute path to the
>/>/ executable.  I looked through the archives, and saw someone else had
>/>/ this problem back in June of last year, but I didn't see a resolution to
>/>/ the issue...
>/>/
>/>/ ldconfig -r tells me that /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/i386 is searched,
>/>/ and the shared lib is in that directory.
>/>/
>/>/ JAVA_HOME is set to /usr/local/jdk1.5.0.
>/>/ Any ideas?
>/>/
>/>/ # java -version
>/>/ Error: could not find libjava.so
>/>/ Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment.
>/>/
>/>/ # $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -version
>/>/ java version "1.5.0-p1"
>/>/ Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build
>/>/ 1.5.0-p1-toor_25_jan_2005_09_13)
>/>/ Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-p1-toor_25_jan_2005_09_13, mixed
>/>/ mode)
>/
>I'm seeing the same behavior. I saw it with the port as well as the
>patch-and-build-yourself precursor to the port. My situation is the same as
>noted above. I'm running on 4.10-RELEASE. FWIW, I have had no trouble at
>all with the 1.4.2 native JDK; I've been using it for months.
>
>Brian Clapper, http://www.clapper.org/bmc/

I have the same problem; and I have all the right stuff showing up in JAVA_HOME, JDK_HOME and ldconfig -r.

I did notice that when you run
	cd /usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin; java
it actually works. A quick truss of the process shows it using the current working directory for something; maybe this is unintended?
 <http://www.clapper.org/bmc/>

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