Re: [OctDev] Java problem with Fedora

[Terry D. <td...@ii...>]

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?

Cheers,
-- 
Regards,
Terry Duell