[gentoo-dev] javaws always use icedtea

[gentoo-dev] javaws always use icedtea

[Samuel Bernardo]

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Hello,

I'm using oracle jdk as default jvm, but when I review java-config
result after setting oracle-jdk-bin as prefered jvm, javaws continues to
start icedtea version.

Analysing the script /usr/libexec/eselect-java/run-java-tool.bash I
realised that itweb-javaws is hardcoded:

> if [ "${tool}" = "javaws" ] && [ -x "/usr/bin/itweb-javaws" ]; then 
>         exec "/usr/bin/itweb-javaws" "${@}" 
> fi 

Shouldn't this also change when java-config defines new predefined jvm?

Thanks for any clarification about this implementation in the mentioned
script.
The ebuild that installs the script is app-eselect/eselect-java and I
would like to change this script to also set javaws when predefining jvm.

I also published this message in the gentoo forum:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1073738.html

Best,

Samuel


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Re: [gentoo-dev] javaws always use icedtea

[James Le Cuirot]

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On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:25:51 +0000
Samuel Bernardo <samuelbernardo.mail@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm using oracle jdk as default jvm, but when I review java-config
> result after setting oracle-jdk-bin as prefered jvm, javaws continues to
> start icedtea version.

Disable the webstart flag against icedtea(-bin) and unmerge
dev-java/icedtea-web. Job done. This used to be configurable through
eselect but it was really overcomplicated for no benefit. This is all
documented here and shown when you install icedtea-web the first time.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-java/icedtea-web/files/README.gentoo-r1

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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