Re: [OctDev] Java problem with Fedora

[Philip N. <pr....@hc...>]

Terry Duell wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:51:00 +1000, Philip Nienhuis
> <pr....@hc...> wrote:
>
>> Martin Helm wrote:
>>> Am 30.08.2012 08:28, schrieb Terry Duell:
> [snip]
>>> You are not alone with Fedora, the exactly same problem happens on all
>>> openSUSE versions as well, I always have to create the appropriate
>>> symlinks manually. I am not sure what the correct solution is (changing
>>> the package policy for openjdk, creating the symbolic link when the
>>> octave forge java package is installed, changing the source code of the
>>> of java package).
>>
>> This always seems to be the case in 64 bit systems (AFAIK also on
>> Windows 64b).
>> If it gives some comfort: on Mac OSX it is worse. The Java libs and
>> executables have been scattered all over the place there and often
>> seem to be moved into other locations with new OSX version.
>
> Thanks for your responses, clearly this isn't just a problem that I have.
> Going on a response I got back in Jan, it looks like it is a problem
> confined to the 64 bit openjdk packages. Is that an upstream problem
> i.e. something the openjdk maintainers can/should fix?

Are you sure that on Sun Java this doesn't happen?
Anyway it is not a bad idea to ask the openjdk maintainers why this 
decision was made.

In the Octave-forge ML 
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=octave-dev, it 
has a bit of a clumsy interface) there are a few more threads on this.

Philip