Blackdown's jdk 1.2.2 rc4 README.linux says:
"JDPA has been backported from the JDK 1.3 ...
- jdb now uses JDPA"
I do not know whether JDPA has been backported to Sun's jdk 1.2.2 linux release.
Both Sun's and Blackdown's jdk 1.2.2 have an oldjdb in their bin directories.
Best Regards,
Tomas Bornefall
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harald Maier SIG [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: den 7 mars 2000 10:58
> To: Paul Kinnucan
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: unable to get JDB Menu, => symbol in source buffer
>
>
> Paul Kinnucan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > At 01:52 AM 2/21/00 -0800, you wrote:
> > >Hi Paul,
> > >
> > >Sorry to have to trouble you, but I've been unable to resolve this
> > >problem after several hours of failed attempts to do so.
> > >
> > >I've tried JDE 2.1.6beta20 on several different "platforms", namely,
> > >
> > >Redhat Linux 6.1 XEmacs 20.4
> > >Redhat Linux 6.1 Emacs 20.4.1
> > >Windows NT Server 4.0 OptionPack 6 NTEmacs 20.5.1
> > >
> > >Of the three, only with the latter have I successfully been able to
> > >debug an application.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > You are probably using JDK 1.2.2 on Linux. I believe, from hearsay (I do
> > not have access to Linux), that this port, unlike the Windows port,
> > provides the new JDPA-based version of jdb whose output differs just enough
> > from the old version to completely confuse the JDE. If this is the case,
> > your options are to set jde-db-debugger to oldjdb, if this is included in
> > your JDK distribution (as it is with JDK 1.3 on other platforms), or to use
> > the JDE's new JDEbug debugger.
> >
>
> Personally, I have installed the latest JDK 1.2.2 from (I believe Jan,
> 20) on a Suse 6.1 system with JDE 2.1.6beta20 and emacs 20.5. That
> linux system needs upgrading to the glibc 2.1. After that work it
> seems that the linux version is similar to the WindowsNT version
> except that the windows version of the JDK gives more hints (with
> message boxes) about the environment.
>
> Harald
