I wanted to report on my experience installing openpkg on ubuntu 8.10. The
main issue was the compiler upgrade to gcc 4.3. I was able to install gcc
4.2 and do a bootstrap by specifying the compiler explicitly.
The real issue came when I wanted install other packages after the
bootstrap. It
The mvn/maven.sh seems to be based on the new java infrastructure, but it
seems to have a problem.
The line at the beginning:
export JAVA_PLATFORM=sun-jdk
seems to throw things off. Should this just be removed?
-Dave
Well, it took a year and a half, but I finally got around to this. ;-)
I did an upgrade from ubuntu 8.04 to ubuntu 8.10. Not a huge switch, but I
reinstalled openpkg from scratch, so it's about the same as changing
platforms.
I followed the instructions from Thomas and it pretty much worked. The
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008, David Stenglein wrote:
The mvn/maven.sh seems to be based on the new java infrastructure, but it
seems
to have a problem.
The line at the beginning:
export JAVA_PLATFORM=sun-jdk
seems to throw things off. Should this just be removed?
Sorry, can you be more
Actually, the problem has more to do with a mixed up environment. I'm not
sure I would call it a bug, but it was a bit confusing:
charm% env | grep JAVA
JAVA_HOME=/openpkg/libexec/java-jdk15
JAVA_PLATFORM=sun-jdk-1.5.0
charm% unset JAVA_PLATFORM
charm% mvn.orig
/openpkg/bin/java:ERROR: invalid
