Re: Supporting CLASSPATH for /etc/alternatives/java

[Daniel Bonniot]

At least sablevm is providing an alternative for "java", but does not 
seem to look at the CLASSPATH. I was thinking about reporting this as a 
bug, but it would make more sense to clarify that issue in the policy.
   

Not true, at least in unstable.
I did install 1.0.6 by forcing the dependancy on libc6. Behaviour is the 
same:

/usr/bin/sablevm does not honor CLASSPATH nor -classpath. But 
/usr/lib/sablevm/bin/java, which is used as the alternative, does. So 
for me everything is OK, which is why I closed the bug.
My mistake was trying to manually use /usr/bin/sablevm as a drop-in 
replacement for Java, which it is not.

BTW: Is there any documentation where I could learn about all the
options that 'java' command should understand (and how they should
be used)? [0] I'd really love to see a pointer. Thanks.
The doc for java 1.4 from Sun: 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/tooldocs/linux/java.html

The problem is that command line options from Sun are a moving target 
(ex: -ea for assertions in 1.4, -X options). Is it worth agreing on a 
minimum, to include in the policy?
In any case, I am still advocating for adding a reference to CLASSPATH, 
since it is not a command-line option.

Daniel