How java-config knows my system?

yuchen · n00b Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 19

I don't know what the ebuild did when it emerges those jdks, e.g. sun-jdk. If I download them from sun and install them manually, what will happen is java-config turns a blind eye to the newly installed jdk. I had skimed through the ebuild and also tried to figure out some assumed, however unexisted files like /etc/java-config... I'm now quite a bit confused... who can help?

dellaxim · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 138

download the .tar.gz jdk file from java then you put it in /usr/portgae/distfiles or wherever your distfile folder is.
Then you use emerge to install it.

Hope this help!

yuchen · n00b Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 19

Yesyes, I knew how to emerge it... I just mean how can I manually install an sdk, and let the "java-config" "recognize" the manual installation... Is there and configure files that java-config reads so that it knows the various jdks installed in my system? Thanks.

monkey89 · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 596

I'd imagine the neccesary files are in /etc/env.d/java, but why do you need to circumvent the portage tree for this? There are plenty of JRE/JDKs in the tree.

-Monkey

yuchen · n00b Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 19

Thank u for ur great imagination:) But actually I didn't find it... I just don't know how these java sdks got registerred in my system:P