-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John L Fjellstad wrote: > > The way the did it at computer lab at my school, was to create a bunch > of scripts that you had to call to get the version of program you > wanted. > > Say, you wanted java-1.5. It is probably contained inside > /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun. Create a script that sets the PATH to > include the bin directory. Something like this: > > JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun > JDKDIR=$JAVA_HOME > PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH > CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME:`dirname $JAVA_HOME`/jdbc/classes12.zip:. > MANPATH=$MANPATH:$JDKDIR/man > export JAVA_HOME JDKDIR PATH CLASSPATH > > Now, this path will before the one /usr/bin, so it will be searched > first. > > You can put this script in your .bashrc. If you have sun java 6 > installed, or gcj or whatever, you could just do something similar as > long as they reside in their own directory structure. > > For compilers, you could export CC and CXX and only use those variables > in your makefile, I guess. > Thank you for your suggestions. I think adding a directory to PATH is suitable if there is a lot of executables in it. Maybe Java is indeed in such a case.
I know that there are ways. What I proposed was just another possible one that could help users select alternatives *automatically*, in some cases, by extending the functions of `update-alternatives` a little. It was inspired by a program called `im-switch`. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGK5G+CIqXQV6BF28RAjsNAKDBMwjftwGlCsLkMLP8MhY6UGIheQCfSqjU NE7XOdAesCZkTXjhpV0Yc2U= =zN6A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
