[SOLVED] jdk6 JAVA_HOME overriding jdk JAVA_HOME

Question

Placing this here for future reference to others having the same problem
Symptoms:
jdk6-compat installed alongside jdk
$JAVA_HOME still defined as /opt/java6 upon login
Problem:
in /etc/profile it uses:
if test -d /etc/profile.d/; then
for profile in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do
test -r "$profile" && . "$profile"
done
unset profile
fi
which causes jdk6.sh to be sourced after jdk.sh
Solution:
Set your locale, aka LANG to something like en_US.UTF-8 before it performs the above code block
Why?
Setting the proper local will tell the shell to expand * globs in the expected alphanumeric order that the jdk6-compat AUR package intended.

Answer 1

The compiler with the JDK is called javac and the JVM is invoked with java. You'll find both under the bin directory of your SDK installation.
The JAVA_HOME variable points to your JDK directoryso it'll be the path that you've given. The PATH variable should point to the bin directory under JAVA_HOME so that you can run javac and java and the CLASSPATH variable should be '.' unless you need to add anything else ( like Tomcat's servlet-api.jar).
This link[1] should help you out loads.
[1] http://ist.berkeley.edu/as/ag/technology/howto/install-java-sdk-win.html
Edited by: nogoodatcoding on Oct 20, 2007 10:39 PM