Stephen Wynne writes:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl
> Pfleger writes:
>
> So maybe I'm being completely clueless here, but aren't there some
> instructions somewhere on how to do the installation of Steve
> Byrne's port?
>
> Karl,
>
> Perhaps it is as easy as untar'ing and moving the resulting
> jdk1.1.5/ directory tree to the appropriate place in the file
> system? But again, I didn't see that written anywhere.
>
> Yes, that's right. The wrapper scripts that are provided with the JDK
> discover what a good value for JAVA_HOME and CLASSPATH should be, and
> then set that for you (if you haven't set them already). They try to
> modify those environment variables if they're already set, but you
> should be OK at first to run without setting them yourself.
But Karl makes a good point -- the README doesn't say what to do. People are
used to more complicated installations, and it's not the first thing that comes
to mind that you untar and run whereever you like. I need to fix that.
Steve
