[Engine-devel] maven settings.xml in building ovirt engine wiki

[Laszlo Hornyak]

Hi,

That too could work, but once it already needs to be in the settings.xml, why would you want another configuration file (like .bashrc)?

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alissa Bonas" <abonas at redhat.com>
> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 10:15:14 AM
> Subject: [Engine-devel] maven settings.xml in building ovirt engine wiki
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In this wiki http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Building_oVirt_engine
> 
> The suggested maven settings.xml contains hardcoded paths to
> jboss_home and java_home.
> IMHO it's better to use environment variables to take the above
> settings from there, instead of managing those settings twice in 2
> different places.
> 
> The current settings look like this (note that java path is incorrect
> anyway, including /bin/java)
> 
>  <jbossHome>/usr/share/jboss-as</jbossHome>
>  <JAVA_HOME>/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.0.x86_64/bin/java</JAVA_HOME>
> 
> How about changing settings.xml to something like:
> 
>   <jbossHome>${env.JBOSS_HOME}</jbossHome>
>   <JAVA_HOME>${env.JAVA_HOME}</JAVA_HOME>
> 
> 
> Does anyone see a problem with the suggested approach?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alissa
> 
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