State of the build on Windows?

Ted Neward ted at tedneward.com
Tue Jul 17 01:03:30 UTC 2007


So... should I set it, or make sure it's NOT set, and ignore the error? :-)
Only reason I ask, "make sanity" reports it as an error; are you saying it
should not?

Ted Neward
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin.Buchholz at Sun.COM [mailto:Martin.Buchholz at Sun.COM]
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 5:57 PM
> To: Ted Neward
> Cc: build-dev at openjdk.java.net; Kelly.Ohair at Sun.COM
> Subject: Re: State of the build on Windows?
> 
> 
> 
> Ted Neward wrote:
> > I don't know if these are potential bugs, by the way, or just bad
> settings
> > on my machine, but....
> 
> > (*) JAVA_HOME is set by CMD.exe before invoking bash (as part of a .bat
> file
> > I created on my machine). Should it be getting it from the Windows
> > environment (is it getting reset somehow in the jdk_generic_profile
> shell
> > script), and if not, should I set it myself again in jdk_generic_profile
> or
> > something?
> 
> I believe we strongly discourage setting the JAVA_HOME
> environment variable, at least for JDK developers.
> 
> Martin
> 
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