On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 09:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 12/18/05, Haim Ashkenazi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 08:56 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >    Is a Java JDK a necessity? I currently have none of the Blackdown
> > > stuff installed and am using sun-jre-bin as it solves a problem with
> > > some drop down menus. However, when I emerge sun-jre-bin I get a set
> > > of messages that aren't comforting:
> > >
> > > --- !targe sym /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/lib/i386/client/libjsig.so
> > > --- !targe sym /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/javaws/javaws
> > > >>> original instance of package unmerged safely.
> > >   * Found no JDK, setting sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06 as default system VM
> > > javac not found at /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/bin/javac or
> > > /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/jre/bin/javac
> > > javadoc not found at /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/bin/javadoc or
> > > /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/jre/bin/javadoc
> > > jar not found at /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/bin/jar or
> > > /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/jre/bin/jar
> > > rmic not found at /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/bin/rmic or
> > > /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/jre/bin/rmic
> > > THIS SYSTEM VM IS NOT SUFFICIENT, REQUIRED BINARIES WERE NOT FOUND
> > > System Virtual Machine set
> > > You may want to update your enviroment by running:
> > >         "/usr/sbin/env-update && source /etc/profile"
> > > >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
> > >
> > >
> > >    I get the same messages if I install only the blackdown-jre without
> > > the blackdown-jdk.
> > >
> > >    Am I supposed to be installing something else to make the sun-jre
> > > work? (Since the blackdown-jre dowsn't work...)
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix blackdown
> > > * dev-java/blackdown-jre
> > >      Available versions:  *1.3.1-r9 1.4.1-r1 1.4.2.01-r1 1.4.2.02 
> > > ~1.4.2.02-r1
> > >      Installed:           none
> > >      Homepage:            http://www.blackdown.org
> > >      Description:         Blackdown Java Runtime Environment 1.4.2.01
> > >
> > > * dev-java/blackdown-jdk
> > >      Available versions:  1.3.1-r8 *1.3.1-r10 1.4.1-r1 1.4.2.01-r2
> > > 1.4.2.02 ~1.4.2.03
> > >      Installed:           none
> > >      Homepage:            http://www.blackdown.org/
> > >      Description:         Blackdown Java Development Kit 1.3.1
> > >
> > > * dev-java/blackdown-java3d-bin
> > >      Available versions:  1.3.1-r1
> > >      Installed:           none
> > >      Homepage:            http://www.blackdown.org
> > >      Description:         Java 3D Software Development Kit
> > >
> > >
> > > Found 3 matches
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix sun-jre-bin
> > > * dev-java/sun-jre-bin
> > >      Available versions:  1.4.2.09 1.4.2.10 1.5.0.05 1.5.0.06
> > >      Installed:           1.5.0.06
> > >      Homepage:            http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/
> > >      Description:         Sun's J2SE Platform
> > >
> > >
> > > Found 1 matches
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> > >
> >
> > I think you should install the JDK or disable java in your USE flags.
> >
> > Bye
> > --
> > Haim
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> What I'm seeing is that with the blackdown-jre installed some things
> do not work. With the sun-jre-bin package installed these things work
> until the blackdown-jdk is installed at which time they stop working.
> 
> Java seems a bit of a mess!
not really. I don't use blackdown jdk so I don't know about any problems
with it, but I do use sun-jdk, and I don't have any problems with java.

have to tried configuring your java environment with java-config?

Bye
-- 
Haim

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