When adding the environment variable JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS an extra line in the output from 'java -version' is produced. As this output is parsed by configure script the extra line has to be filtered out. Index: jdk8u-e8bed1496ff2/common/autoconf/boot-jdk.m4 =================================================================== --- jdk8u-e8bed1496ff2.orig/common/autoconf/boot-jdk.m4 +++ jdk8u-e8bed1496ff2/common/autoconf/boot-jdk.m4 @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([BOOTJDK_DO_CHECK], BOOT_JDK_FOUND=no else # Oh, this is looking good! We probably have found a proper JDK. Is it the correct version? - BOOT_JDK_VERSION=`"$BOOT_JDK/bin/java" -version 2>&1 | head -n 1` + BOOT_JDK_VERSION=`"$BOOT_JDK/bin/java" -version 2>&1 | grep -v JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS | head -n 1` # Extra M4 quote needed to protect [] in grep expression. [FOUND_VERSION_78=`echo $BOOT_JDK_VERSION | grep '\"1\.[78]\.'`]