Jim
I'm all for it. That way, I can have Sun's JDK coresident with Kaffe. It may sound like anathema, but my bosses kinda prefer it that way ;-) Mark >From: "Jim Pick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: JRE file layout for 1.0.7? >Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 09:14:28 -0800 > > >Hi, > >I want to minimize the number of changes for 1.0.7, in order to minimize >the >amount of surprises and I don't want to introduce new instabilities. > >But I would like to change the way the the files are installed when doing >"make install". Instead of installing it by default in /usr/local/bin, >/usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include, etc., I'd like to have the default >install put everything in /usr/local/kaffe, in a JRE-style layout. That >way, people could just set JAVA_HOME to point there, and use it instead of >a >regular JDK or JRE. Plus I've always disliked how the kaffe install places >those "java" and "javac" wrappers in /usr/local/bin. Also, I've been bit a >few times by kaffe versions I've been working on accidentally dynamically >loading the kaffe.org libs installed in /usr/local/lib instead of the libs >I >intended. > >Is anybody opposed to this? It is breaking with tradition somewhat, and >it's for the upcoming release, so I figured it would be best to ask. It'll >also impact the Debian and RPM packages. > >Cheers, > > - Jim > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
