Building Bazel from scratch

[physicsman]

When trying to build Bazel: ERROR: JDK not found, please set $JAVA_HOME. Fixed with: https://www.raspinews.com/installing-oracle-java-jdk-8-on-raspberry-pi/

Raspberry 3 with Raspbian Stretch Lite

Please provide the following information about your Raspberry Pi setup:

• Raspberry Pi model: 3
• Operating System used: Raspbian Stretch Lite
• Version of Python used: 3.5
• SD card memory size: 64Gb
• Size of USB/other device used as swap (if building from source): 8Gb swap

[EMCP]

this occurred for me on a Raspberry Pi 2 as well, OS was Ubuntu Mate

fixed via

sudo apt-get install default-jdk

sudo update-alternatives --config java

note the path, and assign it to $JAVA_HOME