The new javavmwrapper and PATH
Greg Lewis
glewis at eyesbeyond.com
Thu Nov 11 20:02:36 PST 2004
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:09:49AM +0100, Christian Laursen wrote:
> I just upgraded to the new javavmwrapper and noticed that one of my java
> programs stopped working.
>
> It runs binaries usually in the path but javavmwrapper sets the path to
> "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin".
>
> Shouldn't $LOCALBASE/bin and $LOCALBASE/sbin be part of the path as well?
>
> Or would it perhaps be better to set the original path back before starting
> the chosen java binary?
Does the attached diff fix this for you?
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Greg Lewis Email : glewis at eyesbeyond.com
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Index: src/javavmwrapper.sh
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RCS file: /home/pcvs/ports/java/javavmwrapper/src/javavmwrapper.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 javavmwrapper.sh
--- src/javavmwrapper.sh 11 Nov 2004 19:17:37 -0000 1.8
+++ src/javavmwrapper.sh 12 Nov 2004 04:01:31 -0000
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#
# MAINTAINER=java at FreeBSD.org
+OLD_PATH=${PATH}
export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
PREFIX="%%PREFIX%%"
@@ -42,6 +43,9 @@
tryJavaCommand () {
# Check for the command being executable and exec it if so.
if [ -x "${1}" ]; then
+ if [ ! -z "${OLD_PATH}" ]; then
+ export PATH=${OLD_PATH}
+ fi
exec "${@}"
fi
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