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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>]

Is it possible to symlink a directory without version (e.g. j2sdk) to a 
versioned one, and defined the PATH to this new directory?

Jason Flatt wrote:
> When there is a version bump for the j2sdk-bin spell (and, I'm assuming, 
> though I haven't tested, the j2sdk spell, as well), the PATH gets changed, 
> because the version number is in the directory name.  The problem is that the 
> new PATH doesn't take affect until a re-login, and if db (I don't know if 
> anything else has this same behavior) is dependant on j2sdk, it wants to 
> rebuild because of the TRIGGERS file, but can't because "no acceptable Java 
> compiler found in $PATH".  Clear as mud?  What I'm wondering is if we should 
> add something to the j2sdk-bin spell, like sourcing the profile file in 
> FINAL, or is this just one of those things that we will have to deal with?
>