Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:27:01 -0400 From: epilogue@allstream.net To: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: java not running .jar files without absolute path. (take II) Message-ID: <20040609132701.03ed5691@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406091151220.4659@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <20040609020709.6513d884@localhost> <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406091151220.4659@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:52:11 +0100 (BST) Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 epilogue@allstream.net 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? > hello jan, > 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? thanks. > -- > jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ > Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ > ( echo "ouroboros"; cat ) > /dev/fd/0 # it's like talking to yourself > sometimes >
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