ought to be posted

[Chuck Robey]

Brian Clapper wrote:
> On 24 March, 2005, at 22:34 (+0000)
> Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I just *finally* found the mail about the known error, dealing with the
>>need for jdk1.5.0 needing to be invoked with it's full path.  I'm not so
>>unhappy in finding it, more unhappy in finding out that it was a known
>>problem and not on the website.  I spent a lot of time on this.
> 
> 
> Back in January,, I posted a comment on this same issue. See
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-java/2005-January/003420.html
> 
> A couple days ago, I got time to experiment with this problem again. I
> found that installing the javavmwrapper port, and invoking the 1.5.0 "java"
> and "javac" executables via the wrapper, solved the problem for me. (I
> should've tried something that obvious sooner.)

Yes.  I can't decide if the simplest (to me) solution, just adding (for 
csh or tcsh) an alias, java->/usr/local/jdk1.5.0/bin/java is a good 
enough fix (it works) or if it's worth my time to hunt the bug down 
inside the jdk15 port.  I spent some time looking about in there, I do 
think I could find it, but the testing time for something like this, 
it's just enormous ... maybe I'm being too perfectionistic.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian Clapper, http://www.clapper.org/bmc/
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