When I try to emerge jedit I get the following error: Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly. Here is a brief summary of what I've tried doing: root@dmonkey jcummins # emerge jedit Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-editors/jedit-4.2_pre8 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) jedit42pre8source.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking jedit42pre8source.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/jedit-4.2_pre8/work >>> Source unpacked. /usr/bin/ant: line 15: [: too many arguments Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly. We cannot execute jc_options: java not found !!! ERROR: app-editors/jedit-4.2_pre8 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 32, Exitcode 1 !!! compile problem root@dmonkey jcummins # set JAVA_HOME=/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/bin/ root@dmonkey jcummins # set env JAVA_HOME=/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/bin/ root@dmonkey jcummins # emerge jedit Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-editors/jedit-4.2_pre8 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) jedit42pre8source.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking jedit42pre8source.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/jedit-4.2_pre8/work >>> Source unpacked. /usr/bin/ant: line 15: [: too many arguments Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly. We cannot execute jc_options: java not found !!! ERROR: app-editors/jedit-4.2_pre8 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 32, Exitcode 1 !!! compile problem Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge jedit Actual Results: root@dmonkey jcummins # emerge jedit Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-editors/jedit-4.2_pre8 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) jedit42pre8source.tar.gz >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking jedit42pre8source.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/jedit-4.2_pre8/work >>> Source unpacked. /usr/bin/ant: line 15: [: too many arguments Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly. We cannot execute jc_options: java not found !!! ERROR: app-editors/jedit-4.2_pre8 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 32, Exitcode 1 !!! compile problem root@dmonkey jcummins # emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.0-mm1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-mm1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xfwm4 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
jEdit being a Java application relies on Java being configured properly. Gentoo provides a tool java-config to manage JVMs and configure them. Please see the manpage for java-config and configure your JVM. Once you configure your JVM you can emerge jEdit. I've also added a check in the ebuild to provide a cleaner looking error message that explains how to configure your JVM. Thanks!
the java binary was not in my path. I edited /etc/profile to include /opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.1 in the path statement. Jedit works fine now. Thanks.
