[kaffe] How to change the boot class path?

[Ito Kazumitsu]

In message "[kaffe] How to change the boot class path?"
    on 04/01/15, Matthias Pfisterer <Matthias.Pfisterer@web.de> writes:

> for testing, I want to "shadow" a class in kaffe's rt.jar by a modified 
> version of the same class. I routinly do this with the Sun JDK 
> prepending a .jar file containing the modified version of the class with 
> the -Xbootclasspath/p option. With older versions of kaffe it was 
> possible to achieve the same effect by having a file ~/.kafferc with 
> lines like:
> --
> CLASSPATH=/home/matthias/java/tritonus/dist/tritonus_core.jar:$CLASSPATH
> --
> This no longer seems to work. 

This is what I do.

bash$ cat ~/.kafferc
case "$MYBOOTCLASSPATH" in
   "") ;;
    *) BOOTCLASSPATH=$MYBOOTCLASSPATH:$BOOTCLASSPATH
       ;;
esac

When I want to use my own classes instead of those in rt.jar,
I set the environment variable MYBOOTCLASSPATH.