[Lel3_user] j2re-1.4.2-6.1: /etc/profile.d/java.sh overwrites PATH

[Bill Thompson]

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Folks,

If you have grabbed the latest j2re-1.4.2-6.1 (Java Runtime)
from DAG, or elsewhere, you may notice your PATH is hosed in
sub-shells.  Given the badness produced by this bug, I've
submitted a bug report to Sun.

Since it may take awhile to propagate outward, please
see the following for a description and _my_ fix.

Thanks,

/bill

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William D. "Bill" Thompson, CTO
Libre Business Solutions, Inc.
San Mateo, CA  94403

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From: Sun Microsystems <IncidentUpdateDaemon@sun.com>
To: bill@LibreSolutions.com
Subject: Re: (Incident Review ID: 276099) /etc/profile.d/java.sh overwrites=
 PATH
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:40:28 -0600

Hi Bill Thompson,

Thank you for submitting a bug using our bug submit page.

We have determined that this report is a new bug and entered the bug into o=
ur
internal bug tracking system under Bug Id: 5057118.

--  Report --
category : java
release : 1.4.2
subcategory : install
type : bug
synopsis : /etc/profile.d/java.sh overwrites PATH
description : FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
java version "1.4.2_04"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_04-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_04-b05, mixed mode)

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
The rpm package command:

# rpm -qf java.sh
j2re-1.4.2-6.1.el3.dag

indicates /etc/profile.d/java.sh is from j2re-1.4.2-6.1.el3 from Dag Wieers=
.

The file in question overwrites the PATH variable against common practice
and producing badness.   I have modified as follows:

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JREHOME=3D"/usr/lib/jre/lib/i386"
JAVAWSHOME=3D"/usr/lib/jre/javaws"
# LibreSolutions
#LD_LIBRARY_PATH=3D"::"
if ! echo ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} | grep -q "::" ; then
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=3D"${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}::"
fi
# LibreSolutions
#PATH=3D"/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X=
11R6/bin:/usr/lib/jre/bin"
if ! echo ${PATH} | grep -q "/usr/lib/jre/bin" ; then
    PATH=3D${PATH}:/usr/lib/jre/bin
fi
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If you've already fixed this, sorry to bother you.

Thanks,

/bill


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