On 11/23/14, 1:45 AM, Erkcan Özcan 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/4b4e3329-6fc5-4aac-8c93-7433a0376...@trellick.net/#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. > >
The issue here is that Java 1.6 and 1.7 don't have wildly different path structures on Linux. They do on OS X, unfortunately. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
