On 3/15/07, Daniel John Debrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does that mean that this section from Derby's BUILDING.txt is not required.
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(3) Create environment variable JAVA_HOME to point to the
directory where you have installed JDK 1.4.x. For example:
setenv JAVA_HOME ${jdk14.dir} -- On unix(csh).
export JAVA_HOME=${jdk14.dir} -- On unix(ksh)
set JAVA_HOME=${jdk14.dir} -- On Windows
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If it is required, what does it affect?
It is not an explicit requirement, although it makes sense in the
context of setting up a shell environment to invoke Ant, which appears
to be the intent of section 3.1. Depending on your OS, how/where the
JDK is installed on your machine, and the version of Ant you are
using, setting JAVA_HOME may not be required for the Ant scripts to
find your JDK.
The only affect of setting JAVA_HOME is to provide the location of a
known JDK. If the Ant scripts can't find one in a known location for
your OS, the scripts look in $JAVA_HOME/bin for a java executable. The
setting does not affect anything internally in the Derby build.
andrew
