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From: Adam Smith <aws@cs.brown.edu>
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Subject: HOWTO update
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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 19:32:57 -0500 (EST)
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Hi all

Sorry to post this to the list in general, but I couldn't find Eric
Raymond's address to send it to him personally.  I have two
suggestions for improvements to the HOWTO (I am looking at the version
currently in the package on ftp://java.blackdown.org):

1. Add the email address of the maintainer so that folks interested in
updating this dynamic document don't have to post to the whole mailing
list ;) .  Also you probably should add a version number now that the
document is pretty much fully formed.

2. The install procedures need to be updated to reference the new
files on ftp://java.blackdown.org: they still refer to installing the
pre2 version.

My install of the new java consisted of:
a) I already had libc 5.2.16 and ld.so-1.7.11 as per the existing
HOWTO instructions, over a vanilla Slackware 3.0 ELF system with the
one-line patch to fix /dev/zero memory problem that was posted to the
list a while back.
b) Downloaded 
ftp://java.blackdown.org/pub/Java/linux/linux.jdk.common.tar.gz and 
ftp://java.blackdown.org/pub/Java/linux/linux.jdk.static-motif.tar.gz
and untar'ed them from /usr/local/.
c) Changed the /usr/local/java/bin/.java-wrapper script to include
hardcoded paths:

20,22c20,23
< PRG=`which $0` >/dev/null 2>&1
< J_HOME=`dirname $PRG`/..
< 
---
> #PRG=`which $0` >/dev/null 2>&1
> PRG=/usr/local/java/bin/$0
> #J_HOME=`dirname $PRG`/..
> J_HOME=/usr/local/java

I know that this last bit isn't the cleanest thing I have ever done,
but I was getting very confused with different versions of the script
and shell etc so this works and I like that.


Thanks again to Randy and Eric, and everyone else on the list who has
been around to help out me and everyone else.


Adam
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Adam Smith                         http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/aws
aws@cs.brown.edu            http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/robotics
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