Hi again,
Apologies for the previous email, I just saw that there was another thread from
just 4 days ago. I found my answer there. Please disregard my question.
Best,
e.
> On 23 Nov 2014, at 11:45, Erkcan Özcan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have recently updated to yosemite. While trying to get fink up from
> scratch, I found out that I cannot install octave due to its dependency on
> legacy java. I would like to refrain from installing java6 just to get
> octave. I searched the fink-users archieves and found the following thread on
> this issue (from about a month ago):
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/thread/4B4E3329-6FC5-4AAC-8C93-7433A037663D%40trellick.net/#msg32972923
>
> <http://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/thread/[email protected]/#msg32972923>
>
> Quoting Viv from there: "But I can confirm that octave382 builds on 10.9
> (with the java dependency changed from 1.6 to 1.7) using your latest file
> which has one extra 1.6 that I changed in a local copy. And that trying to
> install oct382 packages fails to find the JRE with the same error as before.”
>
> And later A. Hansen: "I believe that indicates that the build as-is really
> wants Apple’s Legacy Java. It’s going to take some heavy-duty tweaking to
> make it work with later Javas, then, since Octave needs to link to their
> libs, which are in versioned directories.”
>
> I was wondering if there were any further developments in the past month. I
> searched quite a bit in the gnu octave forums and from what I read it seemed
> to me that at least on linux, java 1.7 was no problem.
>
> If we don’t use any octave add-on packages, but simply use the “basic”
> octave, would changing the requirements octave-3.8.2.info to java-1.7 be ok?
>
> Cheers,
> e.
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