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| Niels Thykier (niels-thykier) wrote Re: eclipse 3.5.1 in Karmic does not respect JAVA_HOME anymore | #2 |
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Hi
Thank you for your bug report and for helping making eclipse in Ubuntu better. The short story is "only -vm is supposed to work" and the manpage is out of date.
The use of JAVA_HOME and .eclipse/eclipserc were Debian/Ubuntu workarounds since /usr/bin/java (at that time usually gcj) tended to give a lot of problems with eclipse. These days /usr/bin/java is by default provided by openjdk6, which is in a lot better shape.
I will leave this bug open until the manpage has been updated.
Out of interest, which java provides your /usr/bin/java and which one do you want to use for eclipse?
~Niels