JRE install bundles for 6u10 are non-executable

[Martin Buchholz]

Andrew raises a good point.

It's true that Sun does not provide binaries for OpenJDK,
and the code that deploys them is not open source,
but... it would be nice if Sun did provide OpenJDK binaries
(since Sun builds them)
and I would certainly expect the web deployment code
to become open source eventually, even if not technically
a part of OpenJDK.

If I were still at Sun, I probably would have used
Sun's internal bug-tracking system to report such bugs.

Martin

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Andrew John Hughes
<gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> 2008/7/30 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>:
>> I installed the Linux JREs for 6u10 b28,
>> (using java -jar jre......jar)
>> and was surprised to discover none of the
>> programs (like "bin/java") were executable.
>> I checked earlier 6u10 builds,
>> and they have the same problem.
>> I suspect the jdk7 builds also have this problem.
>>
>> This seems like a P1 deployment bug.
>> Hasn't anyone ever run sanity checks
>> on JREs installed this way?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>
> How is this related to OpenJDK?
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