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bug#42423: icedtea: JAVA_HOME
From: |
Julien Lepiller |
Subject: |
bug#42423: icedtea: JAVA_HOME |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Jul 2020 06:29:06 -0400 |
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Le 19 juillet 2020 01:09:52 GMT-04:00, Christopher Howard
<christopher.howard@qlfiles.net> a écrit :
>Hi, I'm not going to pretend to be a Java expert, but I was trying to
>build and run a Java application, and had to set JAVA_HOME manually. It
>is my understanding from my research[1] that applications often will
>want JAVA_HOME set to the path to the java install directory. It would
>seem like it would be useful if Guix set that as well for the icedtea
>and icedtea:jdk package.
>
>If there are good reasons for that not to be, perhaps more
>knowledgeable individuals will explain it.
>
>One part I'm not quite sure about is what JAVA_HOME would be set to if
>both icedtea and icedtea:jdk were installed.
>
>[1] Many JAVA_HOME results in a Startpage.com search
icedtea being a subset of icedtea:jdk, you can't install both in the same
profile anyway.