Re: JDK 1.1.8 RH5x & RH5.0 availability

["B. James Phillippe" <bryan terran org>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Uncle George wrote:

> I would presume that Date.class is not there :(.

Hmm...

% vl $JAVA_HOME/classes/java/util/Date.class
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         6426 Aug 24 07:02 /usr/local/opt/jdk118/classes/java/util/Date.class
% 

It looks no different than any of the other files that are there.

> u just do Date aGirlfriend = new Date();  ?

Any use of the Date class in a .java file produces this on compilation:

% javac DateTest.java
java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
        at java.text.MessageFormat.format(MessageFormat.java)
        at java.text.MessageFormat.format(MessageFormat.java)
        at java.text.MessageFormat.format(MessageFormat.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.Main.getText(Main.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.BatchEnvironment.errorString(BatchEnvironment.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.BatchEnvironment.error(BatchEnvironment.java)
        at sun.tools.java.Environment.error(Environment.java)
        at sun.tools.java.Environment.error(Environment.java)
        at sun.tools.java.Environment.error(Environment.java)
        at sun.tools.java.Environment.resolve(Environment.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceField.check(SourceField.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.checkFields(SourceClass.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.checkInternal(SourceClass.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.check(SourceClass.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.Main.main(Main.java)
error: An error has occurred in the compiler; please file a bug report (http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi).
1 error
%  

> Oh, I see ur in that blank copyright ( I accept ) message.

Yes, it does say "Copyright (c) 1995, 1996, 1997 Sun Microsystems, Inc.",
and the rest of the field is empty.  I click "accept".

> What binary ( rh5/6 & 21(0/1)64 binaries )

This is with:

jdk118_RH60_alpha_bin_21064_v2.tgz
jdk118_alpha_classes_v2.tgz
jdk118_alpha_demo.tgz

from alphalinux.org.  The system is RedHat-6.0 on a 21064.  I have
installed the packages in /usr/local/opt/jdk118 and have set my JAVA_HOME
to that, and my CLASSPATH to ".".

Any ideas?

-bp
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