I used separate .sh files this time (except for the docs).
Given that the next release is likely to be 18.3 rather than 9u1, it's
possible that 9 will be an "odd one out" type release. If desirable,
the behaviour here can be merged into the current .sh files; it's just
a matter of a) picking up
There are indeed some additional problems with JDK9:
- the packages set up alternatives to binaries under jre/bin and jre/lib;
JDK9 no longer has a jre subdir
=> as far as I can tell the binaries in question have also been present
directly under bin and lib (at least since JDK6), so there
Below are the local changes I have been using during Early Access, and
which also work for the current GA release.
Note: only for JDK & docs; I haven't needed JRE packages. But I would
assume that the JRE setup is basically a subset of SDK and could be easily
adapted.
The Early Access builds
A related issue is that GIJ's alternative for java has a greater
priority than any of the sun packages - as a result, installing
a Sun JDK packaged via make-jpkg no longer sets up the 'java' command
correctly (especially given that gij is not exactly a drop-in
replacement yet, it's a shame that it
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