Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote: > The same approach could be used for figuring out the Java stuff. Have > a small class running in Java tell us.
You would think, wouldn't you? But then you'll often end up with gcj. The JDK/JRE distinction is another killer. > On Linux, every distro has its own, incompatible, way of telling where > java is. I just experienced this going from Gentoo to Fedora Core 11. Oh, yeah, I've got another script, figure-linux-java.py, that locates the Java SDK on Linux boxes. If you're curious, you can pull it out of one of the UpLib tarballs at http://uplib.parc.com/. (Just updated it today to handle the latest Ubuntu...) Bill
