Native JDK on Dragonfly

[Andrew Houghton]

This will probably have to be reported on the freebsd-java lists, and 
God only knows if Alexey will want to deal with what looks to be a 
Dfly-specific problem, but I thought I'd start here. :)

I built the native JDK from source.  The build went fine, install went 
fine.  The compiler and JVM work fine, debugging using IntelliJ IDEA (an 
all-java IDE) works fine.  The plugin works fine in firefox, once I 
added the link.

Java Web Start, however, doesn't work.  When I try to start it I get:

  Java Web Start splash screen process exiting .....
  Bad installation. No JRE found in configuration file: No such file
  or directory
Now, I watched the process with truss, and I guarantee that the 
directory and files it's looking for exist -- it creates them itself, in 
the home directory of the user (if anyone else is following along at 
home, it first checks in /etc and falls back to your home directory).

I traced this message down to line 243 of 
/deploy/src/javaws/src/share/native/launcher.c; the helpful comment on 
line 242 says "This should never happen."

I'm at a loss as to how to proceed;  the closest bug report I found was 
from Evan Easton:

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-java/2003-December/001403.html

using his script I was able to get javaws to start, but i still can't 
get any of the demo apps to actually run.

So -- anyone using javaws with a native JDK?  I suppose I should check 
to see whether any of the native patches make assumptions about *BSD 
defines..

- a.