Bug#580160: groovy: stargGroovy can't find javac

[Ludovic Claude]

startGroovy tries to locate javac in order to build the JAVA_HOME 
variable. We should not depend on the JDK, groovy works very well on a 
small JRE, but startGroovy should be patched to use the default location 
of JAVA_HOME on a Debian system.

Ludovic

Le 05/08/2010 03:00, Miguel Landaeta a écrit :
>
> Hi Torsten,
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Torsten Werner<twerner at debian.org>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Miguel Landaeta<miguel at miguel.cc>  wrote:
>>> groovy is unusable without a JDK.
>>
>> is it really unusable without the compiler or is the start just broken?
>
> Well, groovy source code is dynamically compiled to JVM bytecode
> so I think a JDK must be present. The startGroovy script tries to
> detect where in the system is installed javac.
>
> I didn't noticed this bug before because I always install a JDK.
>
> BTW, the patch don't apply cleanly on what is on svn because there
> is an ongoing work to package groovy 1.7.4 but it is stalled because
> jansi library it is not in Debian. I think I'm going to file an ITP for that
> library.
>
> Cheers,
>