Re: [Libreoffice] Java build problem identified?

On 05/12/10 16:54, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 16:35 +0000, Wols Lists wrote:
> > On 05/12/10 16:08, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 14:28 +0000, Wols Lists wrote:
> > > > No luck, it's not working. And what's findhome.class supposed to be? A
> > > > file in the directory? Not there, I'm afraid :-(
> > > Look into the configure.in itself, and search for "findhome". Looks like
> > > that all the other (incredibly dodgy) hackery to set JAVA_HOME disables
> > > dumping out that piece of java code which (IMO) is likely the best
> > > approach to finding JAVA_HOME automatically.
> > Nope. That code is looking for $JDK=gcj. On my system $JDK=sun, so it
> > never gets near it ...
> Yes. That's what I'm saying. It has always looked to me that all the
> other dodgy hackery to set JAVA_HOME is horribly fragile. AND IMO the
> right way is to try and run findhome which has some chance of giving the
> right result. Well, assuming that "findhome" gives the right results.
>
> So, humour me, and cut and paste the contents of findhome.java out of
> configure into something called "findhome.java", run javac findhome and
> java findhome and what output does it give. i.e. does it give the same
> output as what you had to pass to --with-jdk-home manually
Yup. findhome found the right place (or I assume it did).

/opt/icedtea6-bin-1.9.1

The other thing I tried (which I presume is not guaranteed to work
everywhere :-( is "whereis", which found it fine, too.

Cheers,
Wol