On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:44:24PM +0200, Christian Thalinger wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:12 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > > > That's true. But a normal CACAO or JamVM installation does not > > have a > > > jre/ directory, as we follow the GNU rules. > > > > Sure, but real-world Java applications assume a particular layout. > > Maybe they shouldn't, but they do. It's not just ecj that makes this > > assumption to find things. The easiest fix is to install a few > > symlinks in the appropriate places. You can't tell me that GNU rules > > disallow this, surely. > > I know they do and a long time ago we tried to mimic a JDK directory > structure when installing, but we removed all that code (I think because > of Debian's rules, but not sure about that). > > Normally distribution packagers care about this JRE-layout (as we call > it): > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/cacao/alpha/filelist > > CACAO also has a --with-jre-layout configure option where we search for > the classes and for the libraries at runtime, relative to the binary > (just as HotSpot does). It would be great if cacao (or any another free runtime) puts the according symlinks in some configurable place like /usr/lib/jvm/java-$JAVAVERSION-$NAME in addition to the normal install into into the $PREFIX (normally /usr in distros). Cheers Michael
