From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 13:28:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D2C16A4D0 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:28:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from diomedes.noc.ntua.gr (diomedes.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1AF43D48 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:28:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from past@noc.ntua.gr) Received: from ajax.noc.ntua.gr (ajax.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.220.1]) i5ADSEGC034652; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:28:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from past@noc.ntua.gr) Received: from [147.102.220.45] (hal.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.220.45]) by ajax.noc.ntua.gr (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5ADSERm063070; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:28:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from past@noc.ntua.gr) Message-ID: <40C861EE.2020706@noc.ntua.gr> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:28:14 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas Organization: NTUA/NMC User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040609) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: epilogue@allstream.net References: <20040610091907.47256402@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20040610091907.47256402@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: java not running .jar files without absolute path. (take II) X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:28:38 -0000 epilogue@allstream.net wrote: > >>>>>On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 epilogue@allstream.net wrote: > > >>>>On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:52:11 +0100 (BST) >>>>Jan Grant wrote: > > > >>>>>which java >>>>>/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java >>>>> >>>>>java -jar Jreepad-1.0.jar >>>>>Error: could not find libjava.so >>>>>Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment. >>>>> >>>>>however, the program will run with an absolute path: >>>>>/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java -jar Jreepad-1.0.jar >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>i don't see any typos in my $PATH (witness 'which' result above). >>>>> >>>>>the same occurs with linux-sun-jdk (when i put it earlier in the >>>>>$PATH) >>>>> >>>>>am i missing something? is this standard behaviour for java? >>>> >>>> >>>>Works for me; is JAVA_HOME set to something broken in your >>>>environment? >>>> >>> >>>echo $JAVA_HOME >>>JAVA_HOME: Undefined variable. >>> >>>hmmm. i don't recall ever setting that variable. yet, i do recall >>>this not being an issue with previous installs of java. >>> >>>is JAVA_HOME a variable that is required? shouldn't the $PATH entry be >>>sufficient? >> >>Well, the path entry only suffices on my installation; I merely >>hypothesised that an erroneous setting of that variable might be the >>cause. >> >>If I were you I'd take this to the freebsd-java list, there's more of a >>concentration of expertise there :-) > > > hello java-team, > > would anyone have an idea about why my java install is requiring absolute > paths to work? Would you mind posting the output of 'env' and 'ldconfig -r'? Cheers, -- Panagiotis Astithas Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD Network Management Center National Technical University of Athens, Greece