[developers] LOGON and java

[Arne Skjærholt]

I've run into this same problem on my laptop. Very confusing to have
stuff that worked fine yesterday break inexplicably with strange error
messages. My personal fix is this:

LOGONROOT=~/logon
OLD_PATH=$PATH
if [ -f $LOGONROOT/dot.bashrc ]; then
    . $LOGONROOT/dot.bashrc
fi
export PATH=$OLD_PATH:$LOGONROOT/bin

It's worked just fine for me (although I'm not a very heavy user of
the logon tree), so there might be some incompatibilities lurking.

And since Stephan asked what the problem is: I hack a bit on an open
source project that uses a new feature (invokedynamic, a new
instruction added to the JVM instruction set in 1.7). Java 8 also
added some new syntax to the Java language, I think. These days,
bundling Java might be a bit excessive (especially given the JVM's
excellent backwards compatibility).

Arne
:wq