On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:12 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > That's true. But a normal CACAO or JamVM installation does not
> have a
> > jre/ directory, as we follow the GNU rules.
>
> Sure, but real-world Java applications assume a particular layout.
> Maybe they shouldn't, but they do. It's not just ecj that makes this
> assumption to find things. The easiest fix is to install a few
> symlinks in the appropriate places. You can't tell me that GNU rules
> disallow this, surely.
I know they do and a long time ago we tried to mimic a JDK directory
structure when installing, but we removed all that code (I think because
of Debian's rules, but not sure about that).
Normally distribution packagers care about this JRE-layout (as we call
it):
http://packages.debian.org/sid/cacao/alpha/filelist
CACAO also has a --with-jre-layout configure option where we search for
the classes and for the libraries at runtime, relative to the binary
(just as HotSpot does).
- twisti
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