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Java Development Kit 1.1.6 installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Aug 7 16:16:17 1998
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU, cfyi@MIT.EDU, facdev@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, awalsh@MIT.EDU, jud@MIT.EDU, lerman@MIT.EDU,
tparnell@MIT.EDU, jered@MIT.EDU, tsylla@MIT.EDU, seth@lcs.MIT.EDU,
mcmillan@lcs.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 16:16:01 EDT
I have installed the Java Development Kit release 1.1.6 on Athena for Sun,
SGI, Linux and NetBSD (though I only made symlinks but was not able to test
the latter). There are man pages for Sun and Web pages for SGI and Linux-
also various READMEs at the top level of the respective platform roots
(at /mit/java_v1.1.6/distrib/${ATHENA_SYS}).
To use it now you will need to add a local version switch if you add the
java locker, i.e.
add java; javac -ver 1.1.6 test.java (and so on)
or, as an alternative, you can add the java_v1.1.6 locker directly without
the version switch:
add java_v1.1.6; javac test.java (and so on)
For Sun, there is a further complication: a Java distribution is built
into the Solaris 2.6 release and is found earlier on the user's path
than the versions in the java lockers- this version is actually
somewhat out of date (1.1.3). In order to get the one in the java and
java_v1.1.6 lockers, you will need to do "add -f java" (or "add -f
java_v1.1.6") instead of "add java" (or "add java_v1.1.6"). This may be
changed in the future, so that "add java" will get the java locker
versions.
I expect to make this release the default within a week or so, and at
that point you will not need to use the version-specific switch or locker
add. All existing versions will be kept and will be accessible by the
appropriate version switch or version-specific locker add.
Any problems with installation or configuration should be reported
directly to me.
Alex
