[Tinyos-help] Cannot find java and javac - java tools not compiled

[Michael Schippling]

OK, that makes some sense...but what was wrong with good'ole
	tar xvf
	make install

or am I showing my age?
MS

p.s....actually though...on MSWidows I'd expect to have the
MyCompuker control panel env vars and settings which, sometimes,
have the right java PATH...


David Gay wrote:
> On 12/8/06, Michael Schippling <schip at santafe.edu> wrote:
>> That's....odd. I wonder if rpm is trying to use some (stupid)
>> java control panel app to find the programs. In any case it
>> should be possible to go back and manually make the tools
>> directory after the smoke clears.
> 
> rpm scripts run in an environment where most user customisation is
> ignored (for good reason, if you think about it). Chances are good
> that javac is not in the path when the rpm scripts are run. I believe,
> e.g., that the path is /bin:/usr/bin (and may include /usr/sbin and
> /sbin, I forget). The tos-locate-jre tries to primarily locate Java
> (on cygwin) by looking for registry keys to get around this problem.
> 
> David Gay