On Sat Nov 14, 2015 at 03:36:36PM -0700, Scott Walters wrote: > Hopefully this is going to the correct place. > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Problems says to mail the > maintain, and http://openports.se/devel/netbeans gives > http://openports.se/bbmaint.php?maint=ports|a|openbsd.org as the > maintainer. > > The "Output" window in NetBeans shows garbled characters (boxes) when > the green "play arrow"/Run button is pressed. This is reproducible > for me by starting NetBeans, picking "New Project", taking the default > of "Java", naming it "Hello World", then immediately pressing the > green arrow to run the default skeleton project. >
NetBeans 8.1 is much better it shows empty output. Only whitespaces or non visible characters :-/ > NetBeans on OpenBSD (5.8, amd64, package current as of the other day) > continues to exhibit this problem first reported in 2008 to the > NetBeans bug tracker: > https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145696 > > No small number of OpenBSD people have chimed in there. > https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224526 seems to be > continuation of that bug. Other platforms are affected by the same > basic failure mode. > > The problem seems to be that NetBeans does not detect the encoding of > output from Maven, nor does it attempt to interrogate Maven's > configuration to learn the encoding it will likely use. For example, > Maven emits UTF-16 and NetBeans interprets it as UTF-8 (or as ASCII, > how the OpenBSD port has its configured). > > scott@fluffy:~$ /usr/local/netbeans/java/maven/bin/mvn --version > Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; > 2013-02-19 06:51:28-0700) > Maven home: /usr/local/netbeans/java/maven > Java version: 1.7.0_80, vendor: Oracle Corporation > Java home: /usr/local/jdk-1.7.0/jre > Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: US-ASCII > OS name: "openbsd", version: "5.8", arch: "amd64", family: "unix" > > I don't know why (stopped investigating at this point), but mvn says > the "Default locale" is "en_US" and platform encoding is "US-ASCII", > but this piece of configuration change (also documented in more detail > on the NetBeans ticket) fixes the garbled output: > > In ~/NetBeansProjects/*/build.xml, at the top level (under <?xml...>), > where "*" is your project (or repeated for each project), at this: > > <build> > <plugins> > <plugin> > <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> > <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId> > <version>3.0.5</version> > <configuration> > <encoding>US-ASCII</encoding> > </configuration> > </plugin> > </plugins> > </build> > > <version>...</version> needs to match Maven's version. That file is > created for a project after the project is created. Start NetBeans, > create the project, quit, edit the file, restart, then press "play", > and output should be non-garbled (or this worked for me at least). > > I wasn't able to successfully apply this fix to > /usr/local/netbeans/java/maven/conf/settings.xml (perhaps it has a > different structure or needs to be installed somewhere to be used; I > didn't investigate). > > I was able to reproduce this problem in the latest daily developer > release of NetBeans, dated yesterday, in addition to the 6.9.1 in > OpenBSD packages. > > tl;dr It may be possible to fix the garbage from running a project > that shows up in the "Output" window with a config change to Maven or > NetBeans. > Nice hint and thank you, I'll try to apply this advice in netbeans 8.1 port on https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/tree/master/devel/netbeans Here is 8.1rc2 but I'll commit my finale 8.1 as soon as possible. NetBeans 8.1 comes whiteout netbeans.desktop and a lot of windows/linux/solaris binary crap. Best regards, Rafael
