MAVEN_HOME to path

[Robert Croy <bo...@uiuc.edu>]

I am a newbie with Unix and Maven.  I am trying to add MAVEN_HOME  to 
my path without success.  I am using MacOS X 10.3.  Please help.

Robert Croy, ACTC, CCNA
Co-Coordinator, Center for Technologies in Teaching and Learning
Macintosh and Media Specialist
Office of Educational Technology
College of Education
University of Illinois
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217)244-7005


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Re: MAVEN_HOME to path

[Mark Lowe <ma...@boxstuff.com>]

I also run on OSX.. Like linux OSX usually uses bash the way to set 
MAVEN_HOME or any other evionment variavle would be

export MAVEN_HOME=[PATH TO MAVEN]

A lot of folk endit their bash profile, but I dont like that..

Here;s what i would (and what i do)..

1. Download maven
2. Put the directory in /Developer/Java/J2EE
3. Create a symlink to that directory (in case a newer version comes 
out) as follows:

sudo ln -s /Developer/Java/J2EE/maven-1.0 /Developer/Java/J2EE/Maven

4. Put the attached script in /Developer/Java/J2EE/Maven, and make sure 
its executable

sudo chmod +x /Developer/Java/J2EE/Maven/MavenSetup.sh

5. Symlink the script to /usr/bin

sudo ln -s /Developer/Java/J2EE/Maven/MavenSetup.sh /usr/bin/maven


now test with maven -v

The script just sets the varible you need and stops all that nasty 
linux user ~/.maven stuff. But sets it in ~/Library/Maven ..much 
nicer..