Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
--- Daniel Bonniot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The gij interpreter is quite advanced and for me works better than kaffe in almost all cases where I've done a comparison. There is no reason (in most cases) that an out-of-date kaffe should be a bottleneck for packages progressing into main.

Re: kaffe-1.1.1 package available for tests

2003-08-08 Thread Daniel Bonniot
time would be better spent persuading the FSF and ASF to get together on their licenses and make either the GPL ASL compatible or the other way round. who kknows, maybe you won't waste the time and they get their ideals/egos out of the way and work out a compromise. I'm not following this stuff

Re: update-alternatives problem for java?

2003-08-08 Thread Hein Meling
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 17:24:21 +0200, Hein Meling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I report this as a bug in gij, or is this a problem with update- alternatives? I mean, why should removing an alternative cause it to revert to auto mode, unless the alternative being removed is the default

Re: update-alternatives problem for java?

2003-08-08 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Friday 08 August 2003 14:26, Hein Meling wrote: Every time I do an update, and there is a new version of sablevm (I think), the alternatives system returns to auto mode and selects sablevm as the default JVM, even though I have previously (manually) selected j2sdk1.4 as the default.

Re: update-alternatives problem for java?

2003-08-08 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Friday 08 August 2003 15:15, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:54:56PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 14:26, Hein Meling wrote: Every time I do an update, and there is a new version of sablevm (I think), the alternatives system returns to auto

Re: update-alternatives problem for java?

2003-08-08 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Friday 08 August 2003 15:31, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:26:34PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: Right... and I understood from Hein's email that the sablevm package does this upon upgrade... Is that a bug? If sablevm does something to reset a manually selected

Re: update-alternatives problem for java?

2003-08-08 Thread Daniel Bonniot
Hein, can you send the output of: update-alternatives --display java It would also probably useful to see the output when the problem is manifest. That is, according to the diagnostic, after deinstalling and reinstalling sablevm. This will additionally be a way to check that it's indeed

Re: update-alternatives problem for java?

2003-08-08 Thread Hein Meling
Thanks for the replies. On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:44:30 +0200, Egon Willighagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hein, can you send the output of: update-alternatives --display java Here it is: # update-alternatives --display java java - status is manual. link currently points to /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4/bin/java

Re: update-alternatives problem for java?

2003-08-08 Thread Hein Meling
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:44:30 +0200, Egon Willighagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 08 August 2003 15:31, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:26:34PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: Right... and I understood from Hein's email that the sablevm package does this upon upgrade...

Re: update-alternatives problem for java?

2003-08-08 Thread Hein Meling
On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 17:24:21 +0200, Hein Meling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I report this as a bug in gij, or is this a problem with update- alternatives? I mean, why should removing an alternative cause it to revert to auto mode, unless the alternative being removed is the default

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2003-08-08 Thread Gerald Bauer
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