Name: dg70945 Date: 12/18/98


On this page:

http://java.sun.com:81/products/jdk/1.1/jre/example/

and this

http://java.sun.com:81/products/jdk/1.1/jre/example/src/win32/hello.c

there is talk about how you
are supposed to "clobber JAVA_HOME".

The example shows setting it to nothing
i.e. putenv("JAVA_HOME=").

This works w/ all JREs except for the
prereleased JRE from sun.com, maybe because
it is an exe whereas other JRE's are initally
shell scripts.

It seems that you really gotta remove JAVA_HOME
from your env if you want to be able to invoke
any JRE. There doesn't seem to be such a routine
('removeenv?') on Solaris but other Unixes
(Linux?) may have it.

I suggest [a] clarify the example or [b] make
the sun.com JRE more tolerant of JAVA_HOME
being set to nothing/empty string.

Sorry if this is a dup of my own reports - I've
known this for a few weeks and can't recall
if I've reported it yet...
(Review ID: 35157)
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