[MNG-5710] mvn launcher does not set JAVA_HOME on OS X correctly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 3.2.3
• Component/s: Command Line
• Environment: OS X
• Assignee: Christian Schulte
• Reporter: Sebastian Krawczuk
• Created: 29/Oct/14 23:42
• Updated: 09/Jan/16 21:13
• Resolved: 09/Jan/16 21:13

Description

There's a bug in the mvn launcher in JVM auto-detection. And here's the fix:

diff --git a/apache-maven/src/bin/mvn b/apache-maven/src/bin/mvn
index c1442ec..31a5eb3 100755
--- a/apache-maven/src/bin/mvn
+++ b/apache-maven/src/bin/mvn
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ case "`uname`" in
             #
             # Apple JDKs
             #
-             export JAVA_HOME=/usr/libexec/java_home
+             export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`
           fi
           ;;
esac

Issue Links

• duplicates: MNG-5686 mvn cannot execute /usr/libexec/java_home/bin/java on OS X.