installing compilefontconfig.jar & javazic.jar

Kelly O'Hair Kelly.Ohair at Sun.COM
Wed Jul 23 08:34:12 PDT 2008


As I understand it, these are not part of the jdk or jre install bits,
just build tools or jdk developer tools.

-kto

Matthias Klose wrote:
> there is some code not installed in any jre/jdk package by default:
> 
>  - compilefontconfig.jar is needed for regenerating a .bfc file if
>    the source file is changed.
> 
>  - javazic.jar is needed to generate the zoneinfo files out of the
>    tzdata package.
> 
> maybe there are other useful tools which are used outside the build environment.
> Is there a common place where these should be installed? I'm currently putting
> these in the jre/lib directory.
> 
>   Matthias



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