JDK 1.5 beta1 + JOGL + Linux = trouble (SOLVED)

If you tried JOGL with JDK 1.5 on Linux and got an exception saying that it can’t fiind libmawt.so then you can do the following workaround:

Copy libmawt.so from ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/i386/motif21/libmawt.so to ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/i386/libmawt.so (one level higher)

OR

add ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/i386/motif21/ to the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

This bug is fixed in beta2.