Bug 2577 – java-config fails if JAVA_HOME is not set

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sean P. Kane 2002-05-08 10:36:12 UTC]

While trying to set my java-system-vm for the first time, java-config was 
giving me an error. I read the man page with no luch and then went ad looked 
over the script. I noticed that java-config gives an error and exits if 
JAVA_HOME is not set. This seems a bit odd as it makes it hard to setup your 
initial java enviroment as I was trying to do. I assume either JAVA_HOME should 
be set by default to the blackdown jdk or the documentation should be 
updated to note that you need to set JAVA_HOME to an existing JDK 
before trying to use java-config to set the system-vm, etc?

[Comment 1 Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) 2002-05-13 17:26:03 UTC]

It doesn't actually fail, it just emits a warning. However, this warning has now
been removed so not as confuse new users. Available as dev-java/java-config-0.2.3

[Comment 2 Sean P. Kane 2002-05-13 18:06:00 UTC]

I actually couldn't set the system-vm until set my JAVA_HOME.