Java options can only be set with JAVA_OPTS

[sloshy]

I have a project with a very large case class that I am using with Shapeless (198 fields) to derive something (specifically, a Doobie Read for my case class). In this project I have a .jvmopts file to set the stack size for SBT/scalac so that my code can compile. By itself, this fails to work, but if I specify the contents of the file as export JAVA_OPTS="..." instead, it works. It would be great to have some better documentation on this feature, as well as more support for the ways the official sbt launcher can set stack size.

[SethTisue]

I expect this will bite people fairly often in real life, as it's not at all uncommon for a repo to have a .jvmopts file (I have 35 such repos in the collection in my home directory)

[cbrunnkvist]

ouch, @SethTisue yes this will bite people. I've already had my share of issues with "sbt launcher script is not the official launcher script".

[clutch-justin]

I just switched to coursier and ran face first into this when I can no longer remote debug with sbt -jvm-debug 5005 and wondered what went wrong