??? Warning: JAVA_HOME environment variable is not set. ???

[Bill Clinton <bc...@snipermail.com>]

Hello,
    When I came in this morning, my ant builds are failing with this 
message:

Warning: JAVA_HOME environment variable is not set.
   If build fails because sun.* classes could not be found
   you will need to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable
   to the installation directory of java.

however, when I type:  echo $JAVA_HOME
I get: /usr/java/jdk1.3.1

I have been using ant for about a week now with no problems, and I am 
unsure of what I could have done yesterday to cause this error.  If I 
log in as root, ant does run with the same JAVA_HOME.

I looked at the /usr/local/jakarta-ant-1.3/bin/ant file and saw that it 
was testing for the existance of $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar, which does 
exist on my system.

I don't know what I did yesterday to cause this problem today, and I am 
unsure of how I should proceed to debug it.  Has anyone ever seen this 
problem before and could offer me a suggestion?

Thanks, Bill

Re: ??? Warning: JAVA_HOME environment variable is not set. ???

[Bill Clinton <bc...@snipermail.com>]

Hello,
     I found the problem on this one.  Apparently gnomes hacked into my 
machine and commented the export line in my .bashrc.  I was not aware 
that one could "echo $VARS" and still see a value without exporting them 
  So, when I was typing "echo $JAVA_HOME" and seeing a result, I wrongly 
assumed that my CLASSPATH, JAVA_HOME, etc were set when they were not.

Bill

Bill Clinton wrote:

> Hello,
>    When I came in this morning, my ant builds are failing with this 
> message:
> 
> Warning: JAVA_HOME environment variable is not set.
>   If build fails because sun.* classes could not be found
>   you will need to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable
>   to the installation directory of java.
> 
> however, when I type:  echo $JAVA_HOME
> I get: /usr/java/jdk1.3.1
> 
> I have been using ant for about a week now with no problems, and I am 
> unsure of what I could have done yesterday to cause this error.  If I 
> log in as root, ant does run with the same JAVA_HOME.
> 
> I looked at the /usr/local/jakarta-ant-1.3/bin/ant file and saw that it 
> was testing for the existance of $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar, which does 
> exist on my system.
> 
> I don't know what I did yesterday to cause this problem today, and I am 
> unsure of how I should proceed to debug it.  Has anyone ever seen this 
> problem before and could offer me a suggestion?
> 
> Thanks, Bill