[DAEMON-224] Add /etc/alternatives/jre to the list of JAVA_HOME suggestions on Linux

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.7
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.8
• Component/s: Jsvc

Environment

Linux

• Assignee: Mladen Turk
• Reporter: Archie Cobbs
• Created: 27/Oct/11 17:20
• Updated: 01/Nov/11 23:45
• Resolved: 29/Oct/11 16:17

Description

On some flavors of Linux (e.g., openSUSE), the update-alternatives system is used to configure which JVM to use.

On these systems, $JAVA_HOME can always be set to /etc/alternatives/jre.

The following simple patch would add this to the list of places to look:

Index: src/native/unix/native/location.c
===================================================================
--- src/native/unix/native/location.c	(revision 1189876)
+++ src/native/unix/native/location.c	(working copy)
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
 #elif defined(OS_LINUX) || defined(OS_SOLARIS) || defined(OS_BSD)
     "/usr/java",
     "/usr/local/java",
+    "/etc/alternatives/jre",
 #elif defined(OS_CYGWIN)
     "/cygdrive/c/WINNT/system32/java",
 #elif defined(OS_SYSV)