I installed the Linux JREs for 6u10 b28,
(using java -jar jre..jar)
and was surprised to discover none of the
programs (like "bin/java") were executable.
I checked earlier 6u10 builds,
and they have the same problem.
I suspect the jdk7 builds also have this problem.
This seems like a P1 deploy
Hi Martin,
this is a known problem and it it noticed at the top of the download
page at http://download.java.net/jdk6/ :
"If you choose to download and install self-extracting JRE or DEBUG
Jar bundles then you need to change the file permission to be
executable in the bin directory after the inst
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Volker Simonis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> this is a known problem and it it noticed at the top of the download
> page at http://download.java.net/jdk6/ :
> "If you choose to download and install self-extracting JRE or DEBUG
> Jar bundles then you
2008/7/30 Martin Buchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I installed the Linux JREs for 6u10 b28,
> (using java -jar jre..jar)
> and was surprised to discover none of the
> programs (like "bin/java") were executable.
> I checked earlier 6u10 builds,
> and they have the same problem.
> I suspect the jdk
Andrew raises a good point.
It's true that Sun does not provide binaries for OpenJDK,
and the code that deploys them is not open source,
but... it would be nice if Sun did provide OpenJDK binaries
(since Sun builds them)
and I would certainly expect the web deployment code
to become open source ev
Martin Buchholz wrote:
Andrew raises a good point.
It's true that Sun does not provide binaries for OpenJDK,
and the code that deploys them is not open source,
but... it would be nice if Sun did provide OpenJDK binaries
(since Sun builds them)
OpenJDK is an open source delivery, the JDK7 bui
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Kelly O'Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If I were still at Sun, I probably would have used
>> Sun's internal bug-tracking system to report such bugs.
>
> The bug with the execute permissions is filed, are you refering
> to another bug?
No. Probably the ease of
