On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 07:59:43PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > On Sat, 2005-19-03 at 09:36 -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Eric Lavarde wrote: > > [...] > > | So, is there somewhere a document that explains how to setup a free java > > | development environment in parallel to a Sun Java environment, limiting > > | the risk of cross-pollution? Plus some explanations on which free > > | VM/tools are good/best for what? > > [...] > > Eric, > > ~ Thanks for your interest in free java and its use with Debian. This > > is a good question; I don't think we have done this yet. The > > free-java-sdk is probably the closest thing, but that is primarily a > > package that pulls in a collection of free java tools and creates > > entries via update-alternatives for common java programs. > > Not exactly. Or even "not really". > > As you and other noticed the update-alternatives do not do their job > well in java environment (for reasons I do not intend to discuss). > > The free-java-sdk package does provide a script that helps setting your > alternatives, but free-java-sdk itself does not always use these > alternatives. > > If you look at the Depends: of this package and at the content of > /usr/lib/fjsdk/bin *scripts* (they are not symlinks!) you'll soon > find out that the associations are always the following: > > jar -> fastjar > java -> java-sablevm > javac -> jikes-sablevm > javadoc -> gjdoc > javah -> javah-cp (from classpath-tools package) > javap -> javap-cp (from classpath-tools package) > serialver -> serialver-cp (from classpath-tools package) > > Why's that? Exactly because of the "alternatives hell" you asked > about in your previous message on Wednesday. This is a setup that > *I* know works, and therefore has high chances of working for you.
You know it works in the circumstances you tested it I know at least jikes java javah from cp-tools are unsable in some case. Sure, this can be fixed but at least for jikes I dont see the light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that the user *CAN* change the links with java-alt-setup. Its some kind of alternatives system, just not the normal one in /etc/alternatives. This means we will not have a predfined build environment anymore. I is better to build depend on sablevm, kaffe or whatever directly for the the debian source packages. For users free-java-sdk is very good and easy to use. Michael -- Java Trap: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
