On 10/28/2014 01:06 PM, Alain Andrieux wrote:
Actually, installing JavaForOSX2014-001.dmg” is exactly what I don’t want to
do, for it would be polluting a fresh, clean system with a library being 4 versions
old (Apple stop providing Java with OS X 10.6).
But…
Giving it a second thought showed that there is 2 available builds for OS X
(both of version 4.3.2.2):
The second one, labelled “Mac OS X (x86_64 10.8 or newer required”, does the
trick and recognises Java 8u25 as valid. Although we still get this nasty alert
saying we should install Java…
Two things to note:
Any JREs that LO shows on Preferences' LibreOffice - Advanced pane
must match the bitness of the given LO. So if you run a 32-bit LO it
will only show 32-bit--capable JREs. The Apple Java 6 is
32-bit--capable, while the Orcale Java 8 is 64-bit--only.
If LO wants to actually use a JRE's JVM (for other purposes than
detecting which JREs to show on the Preferences pane above), it does so
via the JNI Invocation API. Oracle's Java 7 and 8 for Mac OS X have a
bug that causes any process using that functionality to exit abruptly
unless the Apple Java 6 is also installed (see
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74877 OS X 10.9: abrupt
exit of LO in JNI_CreateJavaVM w/ Oracle Java 7 and w/o Apple Java 6
for details; Oracle targeted a fix for that only for their Java 9). For
LO, that means that it can appear to suddenly crash as soon as it
tries to instantiate a JVM and Apple's Java 6 is not installed. And at
what time LO will try to instantiate a JVM can be somewhat
non-intuitive, e.g., it can happen as soon as you type something into
Writer if you happen to have the Wiki Publisher extension installed (cf.
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=1e54386411055b0049760faff2e1374a83191913
'Official' TDF Mac builds are done w/o ext-wiki-publisher and links
from there for details).
Stephan
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