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

[Ludovic Claude]

Hello Russel,

Yes, we should replace the upstream statrGroovy script with something 
that works only on Debian, it will be easier to maintain

Ludovic

Le 08/08/2010 18:50, Russel Winder a écrit :
> Ludovic,
>
> On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 18:17 +0200, Ludovic Claude wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> I had thought that the Debian package used its own launcher script
> replacing the groovy and startGroovy from the upstream distribution --
> on the very sensible grounds that Debian defines a specific path for the
> things that the upstream scripts have to infer.  Also the upstream
> scripts try to cope with all Posix compliant systems, which a Debian
> specific script does not have to.