Re: [gentoo-user] Switching current java-vm for a single application

[Alon Bar-Lev]

If all what script is doing is executing "java", just add the right
JRE to your PATH as first element.

On 3 February 2016 at 01:04, Leonardo Guilherme
<leonardo.guilherme@×××××.com> wrote:
> Problem is, the SenchaCmd script runs java directly, which resolves to
> /usr/bin/java, which itself is a script that checks the user choice
> regarding the selected java-vm: setting JAVA_HOME does nothing to fix that.
> I can edit the SenchaCmd script to run java directly, that would be the
> quickfix.
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> Em seg, 1 de fev de 2016 às 13:41, Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl@g.o>
> escreveu:
>>
>> On 31 January 2016 at 19:17, Leonardo Guilherme
>> <leonardo.guilherme@×××××.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello.
>> >
>> > I'm using OpenJDK JVM regularly on my machine instead of Oracle's one,
>> > primarily because of the infinality patches and because I prefer open source
>> > software.
>> >
>> > There are some applications, though, that do not play ball with it
>> > (namely, SenchaCmd) and I have to keep switching back and forth between
>> > installed java-vms just to run it.
>> >
>> > I know nothing about Java or its environment, is there a way to specify
>> > the java-vm just for this application instead of doing "eselect java-vm set
>> > user 1; sencha *stuff*; eselect java-vm set user 3" everytime?
>> >
>> > Is there a set of environment variables that can do this? Shall I wrap
>> > the command in a shell script? Ideas?
>>
>> Usually, every [well behaved] java application has JAVA_HOME or
>> similar environment variable to tell it where java is.
>> You can find a valid java homes at /usr/lib/jvm/*/jre or if you
>> manually extracted oracle it will probably live in /opt/xxx.
>>
>> What you should do is go over this SenchaCmd startup script and find
>> what it expects.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alon
>>
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