Curious about JHandles

Michael Goffioul michael.goffioul at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 04:21:46 CST 2009


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<jordigh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since OpenJDK is so close to being a perfect replacement for Sun's
> non-free Java, I decided to try it with JHandles.
>
> Unfortunately, reading JHandles's configure.base, it looks like it's
> only configured to use the non-free Java.

What do you mean exactly?
The configure.base script does the following:
- look for java, javac and jar in PATH
- look for java version by executing "java -version" and parsing the output,
  looking for the string 'java version "x.x.x"'
- under Linux, look for directory $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/<arch>

Michael.



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