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freecol package

Freecol does not work work with openjdk

Bug #229032 reported by Philipp Edelmann
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
freecol (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

If you are using OpenJDK instead of Sun’s Java the startup script of Freecol does not work correctly.
It is checking for the JAVA_HOME environment and if it doesn’t find one, sets it to a value for iced-tea or Sun’s Java respectively. This does not work with OpenJDK.

I found out, that the program doesn’t need the environment variable. Deleting the following lines from /usr/games/freecol fixes the problem for me.

if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" ]
then
    if [ -d /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea/jre ]; then
        JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea
        JAVA=java
    else # We use java6 from Sun
        JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
        JAVA=${JAVA_HOME}/jre/bin/java
    fi
fi

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Maia Everett (linneris) wrote :

Are you using hardy or intrepid?

Changed in freecol:
assignee: nobody → sikon
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
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Philipp Edelmann (tukss) wrote :

I am using hardy.

Maia Everett (linneris)
Changed in freecol:
assignee: sikon → nobody
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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Brian Pitts (bpitts) wrote :

Will this bug be fixed in hardy? It seems rather important since it prevents freecol from launching.

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UncleBubba (drbivens) wrote :

...or you could use this:

export JAVA_HOME='/usr/bin/java'

A good candidate for rc.local, perhaps? The advantage is that you don't have to muck up (and change the dates on) any package components.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package freecol - 0.7.4.dfsg+1-1ubuntu1

---------------
freecol (0.7.4.dfsg+1-1ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes: (LP: #299136)
    - remove java specific dependencies and icedtea-java7-jre NBS
  * remove /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea from debian/rules

freecol (0.7.4.dfsg+1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Pseudo new upstream release to work around dak's
    move-from-contrib-to-main bug.

freecol (0.7.4.dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix watchfile to ignore the alpha releases (users and developers
    seem to complain about their stability).
  * Add openjdk in the wrapper script, and tighten up dependency on
    java-wrappers accordingly. (LP: #280433, #229032)
  * freecol can now move to main ! (closes: #491260)
  * Adapted wrapper/freecol to work around a java-wrappers bug
  * Document undocumented patches, and drop 15-fix-jar-manifest which
    really isn't necessary now that we are using java-wrappers.

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:31:02 +0100

Changed in freecol:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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heartsmagic (heartsmagic) wrote :

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala.
My freecol version is: 0.8.3+dfsg-1
This bug is alive with this version. Now there isn't any matching lines in /usr/games/freecol for JAVA_HOME. I think this is handled via /usr/lib/java-wrappers/java-wrappers.sh.

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