Re: Native JDK on Dragonfly

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Houghton wrote:
> This will probably have to be reported on the freebsd-java lists, and 
> God only knows if Alexey will want to deal with what looks to be a 
> Dfly-specific problem, but I thought I'd start here. :)
>
> I built the native JDK from source.  The build went fine, install went 
> fine.  The compiler and JVM work fine, debugging using IntelliJ IDEA (an 
> all-java IDE) works fine.  The plugin works fine in firefox, once I 
> added the link.
>
> Java Web Start, however, doesn't work.  When I try to start it I get:
>
>   Java Web Start splash screen process exiting .....
>   Bad installation. No JRE found in configuration file: No such file
>   or directory
>
> Now, I watched the process with truss, and I guarantee that the 
> directory and files it's looking for exist -- it creates them itself, in 
> the home directory of the user (if anyone else is following along at 
> home, it first checks in /etc and falls back to your home directory).
>
> I traced this message down to line 243 of 
> /deploy/src/javaws/src/share/native/launcher.c; the helpful comment on 
> line 242 says "This should never happen."
>
> I'm at a loss as to how to proceed;  the closest bug report I found was 
> from Evan Easton:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-java/2003-December/001403.html 
>
>
> using his script I was able to get javaws to start, but i still can't 
> get any of the demo apps to actually run.
>
> So -- anyone using javaws with a native JDK?  I suppose I should check 
> to see whether any of the native patches make assumptions about *BSD 
> defines..
>
> - a.


I solved the problem at my side by adapting the file:
$USER/.java/.deployment/deployment.properties
change FreeBSD to DragonFly :-)
Don't need to be shy about your OS, be proud, then it works! ;-)

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