pack200 --repack not working in Java 1.7 or Java 1.8 on Mac OS X

[Alan Bateman]

On 14/07/2012 04:35, Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> Running pack200 --repack fails with a NullPointerException in Java 1.7 
> or Java 1.8 Mac OS X 10.7.4
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>     at com.sun.java.util.jar.pack.Driver.createTempFile(Driver.java:389)
>     at com.sun.java.util.jar.pack.Driver.main(Driver.java:244)
>
> more details: https://gist.github.com/3109057
>
Thanks for the bug report, this seems to be a regression in 7u5 caused 
by 7143606. I've created a bug to track it:

7184145: (pack200) pack200 --repack throws NullPointerException when JAR 
file specified without path

If you change the command to specify a directory, say ./SwingSet2.jar 
then it will work as before.

-Alan.