On 7/6/12 2:26 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> On 7/6/12 7:57 AM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> I wouldn't know how to check on Mac OSX, but AFAIK there are no success
>>> stories anyway for recent versions of the Java package on OSX. (IIRC on
>>> FINK or MacPorts I saw a very old Java package version, like 1.2.4 or
>>> so.)
>>
>> 1.2.5 in Fink, and only for Octave-3.0.5.
>>
>> The current version (1.2.8) doesn't function properly on OS X--it builds
>> (with patching) but presents runtime failures:
>>
>> cf. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28468472
>>
>> Unfortunately, I don't know quite how to fix it.
>
> Yeah, I read that a while ago.
>
> Anyway, would you be able to tell if given a proper JAVA_HOME setting,
> pre_install.m's magic would correctly detect it? and arror out if not
> set properly?
> Because in the future, when the Java pkg can be made to compile on OSX,
> at least that little JDK-finding hurdle would have been eliminated
> beforehand.
>
> Philip
Sure. With JAVA_HOME unset, I get:
octave:1> pre_install
Error while trying to install Java package:
environment variable 'JAVA_HOME' has not been set.
use 'setenv ("JAVA_HOME", "/full/path/to/javaJDK")'
Hint:
JAVA_HOME should usually be set such that either:
(on *nix:)
<JAVA_HOME>/jre/lib/<arch>/client/ contains libjvm.so (file or symlink)
(on Windows:)
<JAVA_HOME>/jre/lib/<arch>/ contains a file jvm.cfg
(<arch> depends on your system hardware, can be i386, x86_64, alpha,
arm, ...)
error: Aborting pkg install
error: called from:
error: /Users/hansen/Desktop/pre_install.m at line 78, column 5
So that looks to be OK.
But with JAVA_HOME set to what my OS X version calls for it errors out
for a different reason.
$ /usr/libexec/java_home
/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
$ env JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home` octave
...
octave:1> getenv('JAVA_HOME')
ans = /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
octave:2> pre_install
Error while trying to install Java package:
JAVA_HOME environment variable does not properly point to a JDK
Hint:
JAVA_HOME should usually be set such that either:
(on *nix:)
<JAVA_HOME>/jre/lib/<arch>/client/ contains libjvm.so (file or symlink)
(on Windows:)
<JAVA_HOME>/jre/lib/<arch>/ contains a file jvm.cfg
(<arch> depends on your system hardware, can be i386, x86_64, alpha,
arm, ...)
error: Aborting pkg install
There's no jre/ directory within my $JAVA_HOME.
Since the Java package doesn't work on OS X right now that's probably OK.
--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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