[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] time to drop openjdk6 ?

[Chris Sakalis]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Dennis Herbrich <dennis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Am 13.06.2012 21:57, schrieb Chris Sakalis:
>> > Hello,
>> > not a very important application, and there may be some workarounds,
>> > but with openjdk7 Minecraft [1] fails to load the correct bundled
>> > libraries on 64bit. From the exception, it appears that it actually
>> > tries to load the 32bit libs, but it fails. Again, this is only for
>> > the bundled lwjgl libraries. Just a small point for keeping openjdk6,
>> > for the moment.
>>
>> Yes, let's keep openjdk6 for minecraft :)
>
> Not necessary. Runs like a charm with 7, you just need to add an explicit
> library path. See the AUR comments for the package. :)
>
> Bye,
>  Dennis
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LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/ works for
me too, thanks. I guess jre6 is not needed for minecraft after all.

--Chris Sakalis