Closed Bug 1398966 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

If javac is out of date, suggest to the user to check JAVA_HOME

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(firefox57 fixed)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
mozilla57
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox57 --- fixed

People

(Reporter: botond, Assigned: botond)

Details

Attachments

(1 file)

Bug 1398966 - Suggest checking JAVA_HOME if javac is out of date.
59 bytes, text/x-review-board-request
nalexander
: review+
Details 
I recently tried to build Fennec, and was momentarily stumped by the error:

  ERROR: javac 1.8 or higher is required (found 1.7.0_151)

which surprised me because the "javac" in my PATH was 1.8.

The culprit was my JAVA_HOME environment variable, which was pointing to the older 1.7 Java installation.

I think it would be helpful if the error message contained a hint to check JAVA_HOME.
Heh, we actually have a test for the wording of the error message :)
Comment on attachment 8906826 [details]
Bug 1398966 - Suggest checking JAVA_HOME if javac is out of date.

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/178540/#review183878

Thanks, botond!
Attachment #8906826 - Flags: review?(nalexander) → review+
hg error in cmd: hg update --clean -r ba1cf2c8ad66: abort: unknown revision 'ba1cf2c8ad66'!
Pushed by bballo@mozilla.com:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/07c36f901a06
Suggest checking JAVA_HOME if javac is out of date. r=nalexander
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/07c36f901a06
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
status-firefox57: affected → fixed
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla57
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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