On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:12 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > > That's true. But a normal CACAO or JamVM installation does not > have a > > jre/ directory, as we follow the GNU rules. > > Sure, but real-world Java applications assume a particular layout. > Maybe they shouldn't, but they do. It's not just ecj that makes this > assumption to find things. The easiest fix is to install a few > symlinks in the appropriate places. You can't tell me that GNU rules > disallow this, surely.
I know they do and a long time ago we tried to mimic a JDK directory structure when installing, but we removed all that code (I think because of Debian's rules, but not sure about that). Normally distribution packagers care about this JRE-layout (as we call it): http://packages.debian.org/sid/cacao/alpha/filelist CACAO also has a --with-jre-layout configure option where we search for the classes and for the libraries at runtime, relative to the binary (just as HotSpot does). - twisti
