java not running .jar files without absolute path. (take II)

[Panagiotis Astithas]

epilogue at allstream.net wrote:
> 
>>>>>On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 epilogue at allstream.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:52:11 +0100 (BST)
>>>>Jan Grant <Jan.Grant at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>>>>which java
>>>>>/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java
>>>>>
>>>>>java -jar Jreepad-1.0.jar
>>>>>Error: could not find libjava.so
>>>>>Error: could not find Java 2 Runtime Environment.
>>>>>
>>>>>however, the program will run with an absolute path:
>>>>>/usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java -jar Jreepad-1.0.jar
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>i don't see any typos in my $PATH (witness 'which' result above).
>>>>>
>>>>>the same occurs with linux-sun-jdk (when i put it earlier in the
>>>>>$PATH)
>>>>>
>>>>>am i missing something?  is this standard behaviour for java?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Works for me; is JAVA_HOME set to something broken in your
>>>>environment?
>>>>
>>>
>>>echo $JAVA_HOME
>>>JAVA_HOME: Undefined variable.
>>>
>>>hmmm.  i don't recall ever setting that variable.  yet, i do recall
>>>this not being an issue with previous installs of java.
>>>
>>>is JAVA_HOME a variable that is required? shouldn't the $PATH entry be
>>>sufficient?
>>
>>Well, the path entry only suffices on my installation; I merely
>>hypothesised that an erroneous setting of that variable might be the
>>cause.
>>
>>If I were you I'd take this to the freebsd-java list, there's more of a
>>concentration of expertise there :-)
> 
> 
> hello java-team,
> 
> would anyone have an idea about why my java install is requiring absolute
> paths to work?

Would you mind posting the output of 'env' and 'ldconfig -r'?

Cheers,
-- 
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece