Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 49545
IBM JRE still not recognized for Linux
Last modified: 2005-08-30 04:21:44 UTC
This was previously addressed in defect 32496, but I see no way to reopen that one, so I will have to enter a new one here. (Linux) Fedora Core 3 (Java) IBM Java Runtime 1.4.2 (OOo) 1.9.100 I have the v1.4.2 version of the IBM JRE installed in /opt/IBMJava2-142/jre, and have attempted to configure OpenOffice to use that JRE, but it will not recognize it. Have attempted to point to various levels of the directories, and still no success in configuring it as the JRE for OOo to use. According to the javavendors.xml file in /opt/openoffice.org1.9.100/share/config, this is supposed to be a supported version: <vendor name="IBM Corporation"> <minVersion>1.3.1</minVersion> </vendor> This is possibly a configuration issue for the installed JRE, as the corresponding versions in Windows work fine. I would be interested in investigating this further, with information on just how OOo determines the validity of the installed JRE.
Jochen, please take care of this.
JL->MH: Please forward this to the respective porting people.
I have seen that you are using version m100. Have you tried a newer version of OOo? The current version is m109 (or at Januz' ftp server there is also an m110 ... ;) ). Could you give it a try, please, to see if your problem is there?
I have just tried this using m109 & an IBM JRE from the JDK 1.4.2. This was not recognized as a valid JRE. This was running on RHEL Workstation. Please let me know if you need any further information.
Thanks for the confirmation. To me it seems the priority doesn't match the target milestone.
This is very strange, I put in a reply to this yesterday, and it's not here today. I did confirm this against build M109 under Fedora Core 4, and the problem is still there. For IBMJava2-SDK-1.4.2-1.0, I tried to get this recognized as a JRE, with no success. It *did* seem to be looking for a valid version, as when I selected this item, the entire application was hung for 2 or so munites, and gave the appearance of having died, until the dialogues would start updating again.
issue 47836 matches this one at least partly
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Validated still a problem with OOo 1.9.113 (Fedora core 4, BMJava2-SDK-1.4.2-1.0)
parent build task "IBM JRE + i386" filed in issue 52613
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*** Issue 52613 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This issue is exactly the same as #i47836# *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 47836 ***
Validated still a problem with OOo 1.9.122 (Fedora core 4, IBMJava2-142-ia32-SDK-1.4.2-2.0) I have tried to add settings to the OO script ( /usr/bin/openoffice.org-1.9 ) in order to force it to recognize the location of the JRE, as below: ======================================== #!/bin/sh export JAVA_HOME="/opt/IBMJava2-142/jre" export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH exec /etc/openoffice.org-1.9/program/soffice "$@" ======================================== If there are supposed to be other tweaks in order to make this work for end-users off the standard package, these need to be documented. Otherwise this will never be considered resolved. Accodring to /opt/openoffice.org1.9.122/share/config/javavendors.xml, this configuration is supposed to be supported: ======================================= ..... <vendor name="IBM Corporation"> <minVersion>1.3.1</minVersion> <maxVersion>1.4.2</maxVersion> </vendor> ..... ======================================= The IBM JRE is the required (and generally the only *allowed*) version of Java for corporate use. It also is necessary to have the IBM version as it is the only *supported* version for some other work-critical tools.
jelabarre: Calm dowm. This is being solved in ibmjdk01 cws. This issue is closed, because there is another issue for it (#i47836#). *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 47836 ***
closing.
Nothing to do with being calm or not. But if I've entered a defect, I would like to follow through on the verification. So I'm interested on testing a fix if one is available, but the other issue did not say *how* a regular end-user was supposed to fix this; it gave the impression I would have to re-compile the programme in order to get this to work. So I considered this issue a "users" thread, and the other a "programmers" thread.
In OOo v2.0 Beta2 (build 1.9.125) Confirm that IBM JRE 1.4.2 is now recognized by OO configuration.