The file java.txt in the /usr/src/linux/documentation directory gives
information on compiling the java kernel to provide support for running
java binaries. (This file is in the 2.0.36 source trees and I believe
earlier ones as well.
It appears to be somewhat out of date.
For one thing, it mentions a HOWTO file supposedly available at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Java-HOWTO
that wasn't there last I looked. Is this available elsewhere? Or even
relevant?
It then goes onto define a lot of rigamarole to go through either
involving editing the fs/binfmt_java.c source file (no thanks - I'd
rather keep my sources clean if I can) or else issuing a command to
write something to /proc/sys/kernel/java-interpreter.
How the heck do I do this? /proc/sys/kernel is not writable and I
cannot make it writable. The chmod command is accepted but does not
actually do anything. /proc isn't a real directory anyway, is it?
Anyway, does anyone here have the scoop on the real way to set this up.
Also, must the java interpreter be a particular directory for this to
work?
