Bug 20215

Summary:

Batch compiler ignores the CLASSPATH env variable

Product:

[Eclipse Project] JDT

Reporter:

Philipe Mulet <philippe_mulet>

Component:

Core

Assignee:

Olivier Thomann <Olivier_Thomann>

Status:

VERIFIED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

Version:

2.0

Target Milestone:

2.1 M1

Hardware:

OS:

Windows 2000

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Patch to support a new option -bootclasspath	none

Description Philipe Mulet

2002-06-13 12:12:28 EDT

Build 20020612 F3

It appears that the command line compiler ignores the CLASSPATH environment 
variable.  

Could be improved

Comment 1 Philipe Mulet

2002-06-13 12:12:41 EDT

Post 2.0

Comment 2 Philipe Mulet

2002-07-25 06:59:44 EDT

Reopening

Comment 3 Philipe Mulet

2002-07-25 07:01:02 EDT

Clearing resolution

Comment 4 Philipe Mulet

2002-07-25 07:34:51 EDT

Please investigate

Comment 5 Olivier Thomann

2002-07-25 08:38:17 EDT

There is no perfect way to get the CLASSPATH environment variable.
The best we could do is to use a specific property name for that and then 
invoke the batch compiler with the -D option. Something like:
java -Denv.classpath=%CLASSPATH% ......

And in our code we could check if the property "env.classpath" is set or not.
Does this sound acceptable?

Comment 6 Olivier Thomann

2002-07-31 10:27:17 EDT

It seems that the property java.class.path is set to the value of the classpath
environment variable. So if no classpath is specified, this should be the value
to use or '.' if none. If a classpath is specified, it override the existing
classpath environment variable.

Comment 7 Olivier Thomann

2002-08-01 15:38:20 EDT

The final approach is to add a new option -bootclasspath, which reprensents the
system classes. The -classpath is now converted to the user classpath.
So there is no need anymore to specify the rt.jar in the classpath in order to
compile a class. The batch compiler uses a heuristic to retrieve the system
libraries of the JVM used to run it.
I will attach a patch. This is not officially supported yet. It won't be till
this PR is closed.

Comment 8 Olivier Thomann

2002-08-01 15:39:06 EDT

Created attachment 1783 [details]
Patch to support a new option -bootclasspath

Comment 9 Olivier Thomann

2002-09-05 13:39:54 EDT

Fixed and released in 2.1 stream.

Comment 10 David Audel

2002-09-19 10:13:36 EDT

Verified.