Where can I configure Ant 1.8's environment variables on an Ubuntu box?

Question

When trying to build with Ant, I'm getting an error that Ant can't find a compiler, and that JAVA_HOME is set to /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-open-jdk/jre. An echo check reveals that JAVA_HOME is set to /usr/local/lib/jdk1.6.0_22 (where Ant OUGHT to think it is, btw). So the environment variables are generally right, but Ant apparently has its own ideas. Is there a .conf file I can edit to knock some sense into this annoying build tool?

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

You typically put environment variables into your shell initialization files; e.g. ~/.bash-profile or ~/.bashrc, but you can also set then in system-wide files ... or in an ad hoc wrapper script.