I am posting this here because I cannot login to the bug tracker.

In my Gentoo Linux machine, processing starts extremely slowly (>60 second) when using System JDK. The culprit is this line:
Code:

JDKDIR=`which java` && ... omitted for clarity ...  

In my machine, `which java` returns "/usr/bin/java" and some magic in make_jdkcp() causes the script to search for my entire /usr/ for the real JDK directory.

The fix:
Code:

Index: processing
===================================================================
--- processing  (revision 6618)
+++ processing  (working copy)
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
 # Local JDK found?
 if [ $SUCCESS -ne 1 ]; then
   # No, try using the preferred system JRE/JDK (if any)
-  JDKDIR=`which java` && JDKDIR=`readlink -e "$JDKDIR"` && JDKDIR=`dirname "$JDKDIR"`/..
+  JDKDIR="$JDK_HOME/"
   make_jdkcp "$JDKDIR"
   log SUCCESS
 fi
 

The patch uses $JDK_HOME environment variable to find the direcotry to the JDK. This environment variable should be set to wherever the System JDK is. It might break if the system doesn't properly set their $JDK_HOME, do you think it should try to fallback to the old method if this variable isn't set?