1272728 - mach bootstrap for Android does not install java

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox Build System :: Mach Core, enhancement)

Description

[George Wright (:gw280) (needinfo me!)]

Fedora 22 here.

I set up an Android development environment using mach bootstrap. When it completed it said:

Your system should be ready to build Firefox for Android!

When I ran the build:

 0:03.15 checking for javah... not found
 0:03.15 ERROR: The program javah was not found.  Set $JAVA_HOME to your Java SDK directory or use '--with-java-bin-path={java-bin-dir}'
 0:03.16 *** Fix above errors and then restart with\
 0:03.16                "/usr/bin/gmake -f client.mk build"

Mach should probably either install Java, or instruct the user to install it from Oracle's site if it's not available.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

It appears the current bootstrapper code has limited support for installing Java. This would be a good thing to improve. The code is in python/mozboot/mozboot if anyone wants to have a go at it.

Comment 2

[Andreas Tolfsen ❲:ato❳]

Java now also appears to be a dependency for Firefox desktop builds.
I got this error this morning:

>  0:07.69 ERROR: The program java was not found.  Set $JAVA_HOME to your Java SDK directory or use '--with-java-bin-path={java-bin-dir}'

Running "./mach boostrap" did not help.

Comment 3

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

(In reply to Andreas Tolfsen ❲:ato❳ from comment #2)
> Java now also appears to be a dependency for Firefox desktop builds.
> I got this error this morning:
> 
> >  0:07.69 ERROR: The program java was not found.  Set $JAVA_HOME to your Java SDK directory or use '--with-java-bin-path={java-bin-dir}'
> 
> Running "./mach boostrap" did not help.

Can you file a different bug for this?  This bug was for Android, and Android bootstrap does install Java.  I think this is a different issue, and a recent regression.