[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49873] javaclasspath description contains error

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URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49873>

                 Summary: javaclasspath description contains error
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Sat 17 Dec 2016 10:37:30 PM UTC
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Incorrect Documentation
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Ludwig Schulze
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.2.0
        Operating System: Any

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Details:

Entries in a java class path have to be .jar files or directories containing
.class files (actually the roots of directory hierarchies mirroring the java
package hierarchy).

Current octave documentation also lists "single class files" as possible
entries in octave's java class paths. (see
https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Making-Java-Classes-Available.html#Making-Java-Classes-Available
, search for the word "single").

Adding single class files to the java class path does not work (see
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41127759 )

This patch fixes the documentation:


diff -r c9ef5571e11a doc/interpreter/external.txi
--- a/doc/interpreter/external.txi      Fri Dec 16 13:13:18 2016 -0800
+++ b/doc/interpreter/external.txi      Sat Dec 17 23:15:37 2016 +0100
@@ -2018,7 +2018,7 @@
 named @file{javaclasspath.txt} (or @file{classpath.txt} historically) when
the
 Java Virtual Machine starts.  This file contains one line for each
individual
 classpath to be added to the @var{static classpath}.  These lines can
identify
-single class files, directories containing class files, or Java archives
with
+directories containing class files, or Java archives with
 complete class file hierarchies.  Comment lines starting with a @samp{#} or
a
 @samp{%} character are ignored.
 






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