# Elasticsearch-2.3.5 maven build error with enforce-plugin (java home) **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [November 25, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-5-maven-build-error-with-enforce-plugin-java-home/67188 "2016-11-25T12:20:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![srikanth\_muddu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@srikanth\_muddu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanth_muddu)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-5-maven-build-error-with-enforce-plugin-java-home/67188/1 "2016-11-25T12:20:21Z")
I have been trying to build ES-2.3.5 with in eclipse.When i run as clean package build fails with the following message: WARNING] Rule 0: org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.RequireEnvironmentVariable failed with message: Maven Version: 3.3.9 [INFO] JDK Version: 1.8.0\_111 normalized as: 1.8.0-111 [INFO] OS Info: Arch: amd64 Family: unix Name: linux Version: 3.8.0 \*\*\*\*\ ***_"JAVA\_HOME must be set and point to the jdk to run the tests"_** [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Reactor Summary: [INFO] [INFO] Build Tools and Resources .......................... SUCCESS [2.171 s] [INFO] Rest API Specification ............................. SUCCESS [0.703 s] [INFO] Elasticsearch: Parent POM .......................... SUCCESS [16.517 s] [INFO] Elasticsearch: Core ................................ FAILURE [1.474 s] [INFO] Distribution: Parent POM ........................... SKIPPED [INFO] Integration Test Package: ZIP ...................... SKIPPED [INFO] Module: Parent POM ................................. SKIPPED [INFO] Module: Language: Expression ....................... SKIPPED [INFO] Module: Language: Groovy ........................... SKIPPED [INFO] Module: Reindex .................................... SKIPPED [INFO] Distribution: TAR .................................. SKIPPED [INFO] Distribution: ZIP .................................. SKIPPED [INFO] Distribution: Deb .................................. SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Parent POM ................................. SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Analysis: Japanese (kuromoji) .............. SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Analysis: Smart Chinese (smartcn) .......... SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Analysis: Polish (stempel) ................. SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Analysis: Phonetic ......................... SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Analysis: ICU .............................. SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Cloud: Google Compute Engine ............... SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Cloud: Azure ............................... SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Cloud: AWS ................................. SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Delete By Query ............................ SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Discovery: Multicast ....................... SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Language: JavaScript ....................... SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Language: Python ........................... SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Mapper: Attachments ........................ SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Mapper: Murmur3 ............................ SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Mapper: Size ............................... SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: JVM example ................................ SKIPPED [INFO] Plugin: Example site ............................... SKIPPED [INFO] QA: Parent POM ..................................... SKIPPED [INFO] QA: Smoke Test Plugins ............................. SKIPPED [INFO] QA: Smoke Test Multi-Node IT ....................... SKIPPED [INFO] QA: Smoke Test Client .............................. SKIPPED [INFO] QA: Smoke Test Command Line Params ................. SKIPPED [INFO] QA: Smoke Test Reindex with Groovy ................. SKIPPED [INFO] QA: Backwards Compatibility ........................ SKIPPED [INFO] QA: BWC: Shared .................................... SKIPPED [INFO] QA: BWC: Two Versions Parent ....................... SKIPPED [INFO] QA: BWC: Current ................................... SKIPPED [INFO] QA: BWC: 2.0 ....................................... SKIPPED [INFO] QA: BWC: 2.1 ....................................... SKIPPED [INFO] QA: BWC: 2.2 ....................................... SKIPPED [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 23.136 s [INFO] Finished at: 2016-11-25T16:07:38+05:30 [INFO] Final Memory: 52M/366M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin:1.4.1:enforce (enforce-java-home-is-set) on project elasticsearch: Some Enforcer rules have failed. Look above for specific messages explaining why the rule failed. -\> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] [http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException](http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException) [ERROR] [ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command [ERROR] mvn -rf :elasticsearch As of my understanding it says JAVA\_HOME is not pointing to jdk im on ubuntu I see -\>echo $JAVA\_HOME /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64 i see -\> which java /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/java where am i going wrong .please do help ---
**Author:** ![xavierfacq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/xavierfacq/32/8744_2.png) [@xavierfacq](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/xavierfacq)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-5-maven-build-error-with-enforce-plugin-java-home/67188/2 "2016-11-25T12:40:00Z")
Hi, In order to build a java project you need "javac" from JDK and not a JRE , do you have this: ``` ls -la /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/javac ``` Question: Why to you need to build the ES jar ? ---
**Author:** ![srikanth\_muddu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@srikanth\_muddu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanth_muddu)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 1:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-5-maven-build-error-with-enforce-plugin-java-home/67188/3 "2016-11-25T13:28:38Z")
yes i have javac $which javac /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/javac For debug purpose i want to build it ..also to try some changes.. Its still showing the same error.. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-2-3-5-maven-build-error-with-enforce-plugin-java-home/67188/4 "2016-12-23T13:29:06Z")
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