Ben Burton wrote:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/j2se/1.4Would there be a way of making this bit magic? i.e. following the /usr/bin/java symlink?This is dangerous - even if you jave j2sdk1.4 installed, /usr/bin/java might still point to kaffe, gij, etc. I'd stick with a hard-coded path, especially if it requires java2 stuff.
It's best to have both options. Otherwise it forces every package to build-depend on a specific JVM, even though some might work with any JVM. Daniel