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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:00:28 +0200
From:      Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com>
To:        java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getting JAVA_HOME at runtime
Message-ID:  <20060412180028.GB29790@vision.anyware>
In-Reply-To: <20060411222343.GA55418@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr>
References:  <20060411180145.GP53974@vision.anyware> <20060411222343.GA55418@arabica.esil.univ-mrs.fr>

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* Herve Quiroz:

> In /usr/local/bin/javavm, line 447:
> 
>   export JAVA_HOME
>   tryJavaCommand "${JAVA_HOME}/bin/${IAM}" "${@}"
> 
> So indeed, JAVA_HOME is set accordingly to the JVM picked up by the
> script.
> 
> That's how the launcher shell script works for devel/maven2 for example.

OK, but imagine that the target application has a shell script
that needs JAVA_HOME.  There are plenty of programs that are based
on JAVA_HOME instead of the java binary.

How to get the preferred JAVA_HOME?
-- 
     Jean-Baptiste Quenot
aka  John Banana Qwerty
http://caraldi.com/jbq/



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