Wade Brown schreef: > So far I've been able to run eclipse, azureus, and mozilla java > with no problems using the latest sun-jdk, but do be warned several > programs are expected to fail building. >
I use a variation on this; my system jre and jdk are blackdown-1.4.2, but azureus really really prefers sun-1.5.whatever (or at least 2.3.0.0 did, just upgraded to 2.3.0.2--which finally made it into Portage-- but haven't used it yet; it's supposed to solve this issue, afaik). Since 1) azureus crashed alot with blackdown, and 2) I didn't want to change my entire system to sun 1.5, since I had no idea of the effects and 3) not changing my entire system results in having only the sun jre, but not the sun jdk (so a mismatched system), my solution was to write a small script to run azureus: #!/bin/sh java-config -s sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.03 source /home/motub/.gentoo/* azureus Works fine, and saves me having to remember to do it manually every time I want to start the program (and being reminded when I tried to open the Configuration tab and the program crashed with a Java HotSpot error). So, for what it's worth, it is possible to manage 'stable' and 'unstable' java versions on the system, at least as far as pre-compiled java-based executables go. I'm not a Java developer (or any kind of developer), so I don't really have much interest in testing the compilation of programs against the new Java, which, as I understand it, may work, but may not. What I'm wondering is whether blackdown is ever going to update to a 1.5 version. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
