Hi,
I think I'm going to go ahead with trying to write a little C program to
check which library versions a system has and give the user some
suggestion about what JDK file she should download. In order to do this,
I need some information about where systems keep their libraries and
identifying files.
Both my Slackware ~4 and LinuxPPC (based on RedHat 5.0) boxes keeps their
libs in /lib and /usr/X11R6/lib. I think that if I check the same
directories as 'ldconfig', that should suffice. Comments?
If possible, I'd like to check and see if I can figure out what distro and
version the user is running, so that if I know of a package made for that
distro, then I can suggest it as a possibility (eg, if we're on a RedHat
system and there's an rpm, suggest it). But then, what about programs
like alien that can convert between package formats? Should I just
suggest "native" packages? Or perhaps have a command-line switch to
optionally display everything available that matches the library versions
available (and architecture, of course:).
Are there packages of the blackdown JDK for the various distributions? In
the mailing list archives I see several references to an RPM that can be
found in the contrib section, and a search of the Debian package listing
shows it can be found in the non-free section. Do any other distributions
have packages available?
Thanks for your input,
dstn.
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