Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:19:07 -0400 From: epilogue@allstream.net To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: java not running .jar files without absolute path. (take II) Message-ID: <20040610091907.47256402@localhost>
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> > > > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 epilogue@allstream.net wrote: > > > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:52:11 +0100 (BST) > > > Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > which java > > > > /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java > > > > > > > > java -jar Jreepad-1.0.jar > > > > Error: could not find libjava.so > > > > Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment. > > > > > > > > however, the program will run with an absolute path: > > > > /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java -jar Jreepad-1.0.jar > > > > > > > > > > > > i don't see any typos in my $PATH (witness 'which' result above). > > > > > > > > the same occurs with linux-sun-jdk (when i put it earlier in the > > > > $PATH) > > > > > > > > am i missing something? is this standard behaviour for java? > > > > > > > > > Works for me; is JAVA_HOME set to something broken in your > > > environment? > > > > > echo $JAVA_HOME > > JAVA_HOME: Undefined variable. > > > > hmmm. i don't recall ever setting that variable. yet, i do recall > > this not being an issue with previous installs of java. > > > > is JAVA_HOME a variable that is required? shouldn't the $PATH entry be > > sufficient? > > Well, the path entry only suffices on my installation; I merely > hypothesised that an erroneous setting of that variable might be the > cause. > > If I were you I'd take this to the freebsd-java list, there's more of a > concentration of expertise there :-) hello java-team, would anyone have an idea about why my java install is requiring absolute paths to work? thanks! epi
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