Self-built JDK has troubles reading jar-files

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/11/3 Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I've just tried syncing with master, however my build doesn't seem to
> be able to handle jar-files - even with a fresh clone of jdk7/jdk or
> jdk//2d/jdk:
>
> [ce at localhost linux-i586]$ bin/java -Dsun.java2d.xrender=True -jar
> /fc8/usr/j.jar
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java2d/Java2Demo
>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.findBootstrapClass(Native Method)
>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.findBootstrapClassOrNull(ClassLoader.java:10
>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:388)
>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:386)
>        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:325)
>        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:332)
>        at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:1
>
> Applications start up, after I unzip their jar-files and state the
> main-class explicitly.
>
> Any ideas what could be the problem? I am building on Fedora12 Beta, x86.
>
> Thank you in advance, Clemens
>

Difficult to say from just that.  Have you tried using the freshly
built JDK to build itself?  It's a quick acid test of a new build, and
something IcedTea does by default.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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