############################
-# set some fairly liberal limits for ant.
-#no. export ANT_OPTS="-Xms512m -Xmx768m -XX:MaxPermSize=768m"
-
-############################
-
# start guessing some settings...
+# whatever we figure out, we want to export the java home variable.
+export JAVA_HOME
+
# this bin portion works for most javas...
export JAVA_BIN_PIECE=bin
+# try using java itself to locate the JAVA_HOME if we can.
+if [ ! -d "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then
+ JAVA_HOME=$(java -XshowSettings:properties -version 2>&1 | grep -i java.home | sed -e 's/.*java.home = \(.*\)$/\1/')
+fi
+
+# if that didn't work, then we try a series of random bizarro places where
+# we have seen java live before.
+
+#hmmm: below list is way out of date. we really hope the first attempt above works.
+
if [ ! -d "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then
# try a recent version.
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
if [ ! -d "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then
unset JAVA_HOME
unset JAVA_BIN_PIECE
- if [ -z "$(whichable java 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
+ if [ -z "$(whichable java)" ]; then
intuition_failure JAVA_HOME
fi
fi
ECLIPSE_DIR=$HOME/eclipse
fi
if [ ! -d "$ECLIPSE_DIR" ]; then
- ECLIPSE_DIR=$HOME/apps/eclipse
+ ECLIPSE_DIR=/usr/local/fred/eclipse
fi
if [ ! -d "$ECLIPSE_DIR" ]; then
ECLIPSE_DIR="c:/tools/eclipse"
ECLIPSE_DIR=$(echo $ECLIPSE_DIR | sed -e 's/^\(.\):/\/cygdrive\/\1/')
fi
fi
-if [ -z "$ECLIPSE_DIR" -a -z "$(whichable eclipse 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
+if [ -z "$ECLIPSE_DIR" -a -z "$(whichable eclipse)" ]; then
intuition_failure ECLIPSE_DIR
fi