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Reputation: 191789

Jenkins: Your JAVA_HOME is invalid on OS X

I am using Jenkins to build an android project on a mac stadium VM.

When I VNC into the VM, I can build the project just fine. Java is installed at /usr/bin/java, and my $PATH includes /usr/bin.

When I run the same commands from the Jenkins job, it fails with

ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: /var/lib/jenkins/jdk1.8.0_25

Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
location of your Java installation.

/var/lib/jenkins/jdk... does not exist on the VM. I have also tried updating the build job to include export JAVA_HOME=/usr/bin, but then I get a different error:

Error: Failed to run "java -version", make sure that you have a JDK installed.
You can get it from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads.
Your JAVA_HOME is invalid: /usr/bin

All of the other steps seem to work so I can tell that the code is being downloaded to the workspace and everything else is installed properly, and as I said I can build android on the VM from the command line directly.

What can I do to get Jenkins to build on the VM?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4834

Answers (1)

mekazu
mekazu

Reputation: 2705

The best way to set the JAVA_HOME on a mac is to use java_home after downloading and installing the required JDK from oracle:

export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home`

If you want Jenkins to use an older version of the JDK ensure use the -v flag:

export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.6`

To preview the location just type the java_home command into a Terminal:

$ /usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_67.jdk/Contents/Home

$ /usr/libexec/java_home
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_92.jdk/Contents/Home

Upvotes: 7

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