On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:26:56PM +0100, Penguin Lover András Csányi squawked: > On 23 February 2012 21:13, Willie WY Wong <wong...@member.ams.org> wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > Is there a way to set the Java VM based on program? > > > > For the most part I would like to keep icedtea-bin-7 as my system VM, > > but there is one program (jabref-2.6) which doesn't run well with > > java-7, but works fine with icedtea-bin-6. > > > > Is there a "Gentoo" way of setting this? > > I don't think there would be a way to achieve this. I think, there is > a way to set the java vm for your application when you start it. You > can create an alias to handle easier the program starting, for > example. >
I just realised that /usr/bin/jabref is a bash script, which says --------------- gjl_package=jabref gjl_main="net.sf.jabref.JabRef" source /usr/share/java-config-2/launcher/launcher.bash --------------- and launcher.bash contains the lines ---snip------- # Source package env # --------------------- gjl_user_env="${HOME}/.gentoo/java-config-2/launcher.d/${gjl_package}" gjl_system_env="/etc/java-config-2/launcher.d/${gjl_package}" if [[ -f "${gjl_user_env}" ]]; then source "${gjl_user_env}" elif [[ -f "${gjl_system_env}" ]]; then source "${gjl_system_env}" fi ---end snip--- which makes me suspect that there is a way to give per-package specifications. Is there documented anywhere? Cheers, W -- Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton