On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:05:21 -0400 (CST), Aaron Brick wrote:
>my JDK installation seems to be weird. i saw a previous post relevant to
>this problem in the archive but the responses i saw weren't helpful.
>
>when i do "java HelloWorld.class" it complains about not being able to
>find the class file - even if i pass the full path - until i do a
>"-classpath `pwd`", or its equivalent. is this normal behavior?
>
>then - this is the step i have not been able to solve - it complains about
>not being able to find a class file called "java/lang/Thread". well, i
>have tried a large number of things with the Thread.class file, including
>renaming it and putting its path in classpath, putting it in ad-hoc
>subdirs in the java/classes dir (where i'm trying all this), etc. i just
>can't get it to find the file.
>
>i mailed one member of this list and he told me to download some different
>classes.zip file - however, it didn't appear to be on the russian server
>he gave me. why the discrepancy, and what is the deal with this problem,
>anyone?
>
>i have:
>
>JDK 1.1.6v2, glibc, i386 on Debian 2.0 (2.0.34), libc6. i don't have my
>machine handy so i'm sorry i don't have the loader or X versions but i can
>certainly supply them later.
>
>i would say this problem is of fairly high severity because it prevents me
>from running any program at all! it may be that it is an isolated incident
>but i sure thought the install went fine and my system is not weirdly
>hacked or anything.
What is your CLASSPATH environment variable set to?
Best to first try *not* having it set to *anything*
(CSH - unsetenv CLASSPATH)
In most cases, CLASSPATH should not be needed.
(It sounds like CLASSPATH points at the classes.zip file but not the
current directory - aka ".")
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
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