I'm trying to get mpkg-j2sdk (v 1.9.21) to build a debian package out of the IBM 1.4 JDK. I've created .deb with it and installed using dpkg --install, but AFAICT the new IBM JDK doesn't like being redirected via /etc/alternatives. As you can see below, with one level of symlink redirection, things work fine, but with two, java can't find it's .so file. In 1.3.1, there was a script that chased down symlinks, found the real executable, and set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly -- this script went away in 1.4
$/usr/bin/java -version JVM not found: libjvm.so - libjvm.so $ls -lc /usr/bin/java lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 19 13:49 /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java $/etc/alternatives/java -version java version "1.4.0" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0) Classic VM (build 1.4.0, J2RE 1.4.0 IBM build cxia32140-20020917a (JIT enabled: jitc)) $ls -lc /etc/alternatives/java lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Apr 29 18:32 /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-ibm/bin/java This is the same problem I encountered when converting the IBM 1.4 rpm to a .deb using alien. I'm running a mostly up-to-date Woody. Any suggestions about how to solve this problem? Obviously we could modify our PATH, but that's a poor option overall. Similarly, switching to the Blackdown or Sun jdk aren't great options. Thanks for any help, Dave
