[R] how do I tell configure where to find Java?

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Tue Oct 3 21:14:02 CEST 2006


On 3 October 2006 at 14:40, Liaw, Andy wrote:
| I'm trying to build R-2.4.0 on our Opteron-based Scyld cluster.  The system
| has gcj (the GNU Java compiler, part of GCC) stuff in /usr/bin.  When I
| installed jdk 1.5.08, the install script placed it in /usr/java (I didn't
| have a choice, as the script didn't offer that option).  Now when I run
| configure in R-2.4.0, it finds gcj, which is not what I want to use.  Is
| there a way to tell configure where to look for Java?  I tried configure
| --help but didn't see anything related to Java.

What if you re-order PATH so that /usr/java comes first?  

Dirk

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