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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 06:22:38PM -0500, David Kowis wrote:
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> 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?
> > 
> This also happens with things like casting apache and apr0 or apr. A new
> shell has to be created so that apache can find apr. It may not be
> apache that's got the problem, but I've had to do this a few times with
> different spells.
> 
> IMO it should be the spell that modifys /etc/profile that does the
> reloading to ensure that any other spells following it have that
> information. Not the other way around.
> 

Unfortunatly shells dont work that way. They cannot pass data back up
to the parent process. The symlink solution is probably the best way to
go about fixing it.

-Andrew

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