Bugzilla Bug 68147

batik-1.5.1-r1 does not start and reports "SVG Error: SAX2 driver class
org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser not found" (see attached screen shot),
although all dependencies are met. A different error message is printed into
the console:

$ java -jar /usr/share/batik/lib/batik.jar

java.io.IOException: SAX2 driver class org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser not
found
        at org.apache.batik.dom.util.SAXDocumentFactory.createDocument(Unknown
Source)
        at org.apache.batik.dom.util.SAXDocumentFactory.createDocument(Unknown
Source)
        at org.apache.batik.dom.util.SAXDocumentFactory.createDocument(Unknown
Source)
        at
org.apache.batik.apps.svgbrowser.XMLPreferenceManager$XMLProperties.load(Unknown
Source)
        at org.apache.batik.util.PreferenceManager.load(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.batik.apps.svgbrowser.Main.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.batik.apps.svgbrowser.Main.main(Unknown Source)

Whereas batik-1.5.1 stars without problems.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge batik [1.5.1-r1 is affected]
2. invoke batik using "java -jar /usr/share/batik/lib/batik.jar"
3.

Actual Results:  
batik stops starting and gives error message as I described above.

Expected Results:  
batik-1.5.1-r1 should run like batik-1.5.1, i.e. withoug giving an error
message.

$ emerge info

Portage 2.0.51_rc9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041006-r0,
2.6.9-rc3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-rc3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mtune=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftracer -msse -mmmx -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse
-pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mtune=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer
-funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftracer -msse -mmmx -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse
-pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowex alsa apm avi bitmap-fonts cdr divx4linux dvd dvdr f77
foomaticdb gphoto2 gpm libwww matroska mmx mmx2 mpeg nptl oggvorbis pdflib
quicktime speex sse ssl svg tcpd theora truetype unicode usb x86 xprint xv xvid
zlib video_cards_radeon"

Created an attachment (id=42167) [details]
Error window given by batik-1.5.1-r1

Same problem here, but I guess it must be a classpath problem...

Added a wrapper script