From owner-freebsd-java Sun Jan 25 11:35:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08249 for java-outgoing; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 11:35:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08242 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 11:35:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA06314; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:35:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA28800; Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:35:21 -0700 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 12:35:21 -0700 Message-Id: <199801251935.MAA28800@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Robert Watson Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CLASSPATH In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > CLASSPATH=.:/usr/local/share/kaffe/classes.zip:/usr/local/netscape/java/classes/java40.jar > > Kaffe is quite happy, finding its classes stuff. Netscape 4.04 now > complains that its classes are unsigned (previous versions did not care?); > placing the Netscape classes first causes Kaffe to barf with a seg > violation. That's because kaffe expects the kaffe files first. > Presumably the Netscape signatures on Jar files are standard > Java Stuff, so Kaffe is at fault for not reading Jar files appropriately. > What would be the best way to resolve this? Wrappers to set CLASSPATH > appropriately? unset the CLASSPATH when running netscape if you expect any netscape stuff to work right. > Also, I am not sure that the . at the beginning is necessary/appropriate > (Given a general concern with .'s in any path), but it must have come out > of a sample config somewhere from Kaffe or such. It's so you can run stuff you've just recently compiled. % javac Foo.java % java Foo > Is the current JDK happy with signed Jar files? (etc?) Don't know, is the standard JDK you recieve from Sun happy with signed Jar files? If so, the current FreeBSD JDK should also be happy. Nate