On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Philip Nienhuis <pr.nienh...@hccnet.nl>wrote:
> Michael,
>
> Inspired by recurring postings about failed Java package installations, I
> wrote the attached pre-install.m script.
>
> It merely checks for proper setting of the JAVA_HOME environment variable
> and aborts pkg.m if it seems to be wrong. From the messages I saw in the
> mailing lists, improper setting of JAVA_HOME is the most common cause for
> Java package installation failures.
> The check revolves around presence of a libjvm.so (*nix) or jvm.cfg (on
> Windows systems).
> 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.)
>
> Do you agree to add this to the Java package?
>
>
> In addition, I patched the dialog functions contributed by Martin Hepperle
> (warndlg.m, listdlg.m, etc) to accept cellstr arrays too, so that
> multi-line messages can be displayed (a ML compatibility improvement).
>
> If you agree to adding pre_install.m, I can make a new release of the Java
> package next week or so.
>
> Philip
>
Hi Philip,
I'm fine with the suggested change. Please go ahead.
Michael.
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