kaffe

[Godmar Back]

> 
> I have to say, I do not like the look of what /usr/bin/report-kaffe-bug 
> did here, and the lack of a man page for send-pr isn't very encouraging 
> either.

report-kaffe-bug isn't used anymore.
The jitterbug database is the way to submit bugs.
We really need to get rid of it.

> 
> I've been using the blackdown JDK on RHL 5.x, and thought to check out 
> kaffe-1.0.b4-2 which ships with RHL 6.0.
> 
> Unfortunately, it failed the first test: I use the jre command extensively 
> and there isn't one included.

Hmmm, jre.  That's sun's stripped down runtime environment, isn't it?
Does 

	alias jre kaffe

not work?  If there's more to it, we can provide a jre command.

> 
> Note too: it's necessary to set CLASSPATH to secify any libraries that do 
> not ship with kaffe: swing, a user's own collection being obvious examples.

You have to do that with Sun's JDK too, don't you?

Btw, kaffe will pick all jar files you put in /usr/share/kaffe
(or in general, $prefix/share/kaffe).  So if you want kaffe to find Swing,
put the swing.jar file in this directory.

	- Godmar