On 7/9/07, bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It appears Linux J has some assumption on the location of j system folder and libj601, so will it be portable in the coming J602?
I think the issue here is that there would be three different "reasonable" ways of installing J: 0. System installation (all users share the same installation of J). 1. User installation (J is installed in the user's home directory) 2. Portable installation (on usb drive or network mount) Another issue is that the default dynamic linker follows its own set of rules (which is not specifically related to the pattern J uses). Probably the simplest solution would be to use dynamic linking (what 15!: uses) instead of the default linking mechanism, for the j binary to find the j interpreter library or libraries. Also, note that the "system implementation" variant might be treated as an instance of the "user installation" variant -- with a special "j user" created specifically to hold J for all users. If people want a /usr/local/bin/jconsole or something like that, presumably they could use a wrapper shell script or symbolic link that points to the installed location.
The intention is to create a all-in-one J system on usb since these packages are almost identical.
Or you could just have three copies of J on the same usb drive, though I guess you would want to arrange to share the same user (and package manager) directories. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
