On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 07:44:31 -0400, Jim Ridenour wrote:
> First let me say I'm new to Linux, but I do run other programs on it
>successfully.
>I have two questions:
>
>1. On Blackdown's mirror sites for JDK116_v5 they have two files beginning
>with jdk... and differing only by the letter "b" toward the end. The one
>without the "b" appears to be the one I want and uncompresses to the JDK.
>The one with the "b" on the end won't even uncompress. What is it?
We have started to release the files in both tar.gz and tar.bz2 format.
The bz2 compression format (bzip2) is a new compression system that
happens to do a nice job on the JDK (saving a bit over 10% in size and
since the archive is over 10megs that means over 1meg smaller archives)
Many people do not have bzip2 support on their systems. Plus, tar.gz
is a well established format that works on almost all platforms (including
Windows/WinZIP) tar.gz also uses much less RAM to decompress a file.
(bzip2 can use a lot of memory to do a decompress and the memory it
takes depends on the way the file was compressed)
The main reason we are trying bzip2 format is to see if people really
want it due to the smaller file sizes. (Not all files are smaller)
I know it takes me twice as long to upload the two different formats
and thus I would like to have only one, but since I do the upload in
auto-pilot mode while I am away from my machines usually, it does not
bother me too much)
>2. Having uncompressed JDK116v5 (the one without the "b" at the end) it
>creates all the directories to hold the jdk. If I go into /jdk116v5/bin
>and create a test.java file and then invoke "javac test.java", nothing
>happens. I just get a command prompt back. No test.class file is created,
>no errors, no messages, nothing. Both the test.java and the javac are in
>that directory so paths shouldn't be the problem. Any ideas?
Hmmm... I don't have an idea right now. I normall add the jdk116v5/bin
directory to my path and do my work elsewhere.
>PS I should say this is on RedHat 5.0 and I used their package manager to
>remove all Kaffe files. Also, I am using the glibc version which by the
>tests Blackdown describes for telling which library you have, is the one I
>need.
Thanks for that PS. I build the glibc libraries on RedHat 5.0 (albeit
updated to current releases of the kernel and other security/bug fixes)
What happens if you just type "java -version" or "javac"
The first should give you the version of the java system you are running
and the second should output the compiler options. If this does not
happen, try doing "which java" or "which javac" to find out where things
may be coming from.
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- http://www.nextbus.com
My place on the web ---> http://www.users.fast.net/~michael_sinz
