Sbt on linux does not accept -jvm-debug 5005

Question

I am using sbt launcher version 0.13.7 on Arch Linux from official archive repositories. I am trying to debug a scala application using IntelliJ.

Wherever I looked, including other stack overflow problems, it seemed like Linux sbt versions could be debugged just by calling "sbt -jvm-debug 5005"

However, when I do this, I get a long string of errors:

[warn] The `-` command is deprecated in favor of `onFailure` and will be removed in 0.14.0
[error] Expected letter
[error] Expected symbol
[error] Expected '!'
[error] Expected '+'
[error] Expected '++'
[error] Expected 'debug'
[error] Expected 'info'
[error] Expected 'warn'
[error] Expected 'error'
[error] Expected ';'
[error] Expected end of input.
[error] Expected '--'
[error] Expected 'show'
[error] Expected 'all'
[error] Expected '*'
[error] Expected '{'
[error] Expected project ID
[error] Expected configuration
[error] Expected key
[error] Expected '-'
[error] 5005
[error] ^
[error] Not a valid command: jvm-debug
[error] Not a valid project ID: jvm-debug
[error] Expected ':' (if selecting a configuration)
[error] Not a valid key: jvm-debug
[error] jvm-debug
[error]          ^

Why is this, and how can I configure the sbt project for debugging on a port?

Answer 1

This seems to work:

export SBT_OPTS="-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005" && sbt

However, I would still like to know why "sbt -jvm-debug 5005" does not work on Arch, if anyone knows.

Answer 2

SBT Linux, OS X.

SBT 0.13.9 OS X -jvm-debug SBT_OPTS, .

:

export JAVA_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005"