Note that this issue has been filed at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-319.
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Jeff Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > I am literally downloading a 1.5 jdk from some random > cs.washington.edu URL because no one else on the web seems to have > java 1.5 built for OS X 10.6. > > I'm hearing from the Forrest PMC (Grant McDonald) that the release > after this coming release will have 1.6 support. However, that first > release (not the second one with 1.6 support!) is going to happen in > "the next couple of months". This is, of course, after 3 years of no > releases. > > I think it makes sense for us to move to Sphinx or similar. > -- > Jeff > > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Scott Carey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Don't make the mistake that I did and think you can simply change the > symlink to point to the directory with Java 1.5 -- it actually has to be > placed where the symlink is. > > > > For posterity-- The below is from my email on the topic from April 12, > 2010: > > > > ---- > > OS-X Snow Leopard tips: > > For those in a similar situation, the work-around posted in AVRO-318 > makes Java 5 the default for most apps and overrides Java 6. But turning > off Java 6 is not necessary. > > Getting a copy of Java 1.5 and placing it in > /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0 and setting up > the links is sufficient. You do not have to make Java 1.5 the default and > can continue to use Java 1.6 for everything but Forrest. I used the first > few steps here: http://wiki.oneswarm.org/index.php/OS_X_10.6_Snow_Leopardbut > stopped after recreating the symbolic links. > > Additionally, the build.xml will not run without passing in > -Djava5.home=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home > -Dforrest.home=<location of Forrest>. > > ---- > > > > On May 31, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Jeff Hodges wrote: > > > >> Sigh, I didn't notice the symlink before. That's what's happening. > Thanks. > >> -- > >> Jeff > >> > >> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Scott Carey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Are you on Snow Leopard? If so, you manually have to install a copy of > Java 5 and overwrite the Mac symlinks in just the right way. You don't have > to change the default system JVM to 1.5 though. > >>> > >>> Does the symlink > /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0 point to a 1.6 > JVM? That is what it does on Snow Leopard by default. forrest is somehow > not forward compatible with Java 1.6. The trick to getting it to work is to > both set the property to that symlink, and make sure that symlink points to > an actual java 1.5 install. > >>> > >>> There are a few threads from the Avro dev list over the past ~7 months > that discuss the steps needed to get it to work in more detail. > >>> > >>> -Scott > >>> > >>> On May 31, 2010, at 10:49 PM, Jeff Hodges wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hey, > >>>> I'm running into issues build the docs. Specifically, in avro trunk, > >>>> I'm running: > >>>> > >>>> ant > -Djava5.home=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home > >>>> -Dforrest.home=/Users/jhodges/projects/apache-forrest-0.8/ doc > >>>> > >>>> on OS X. Hoever, I'm getting this gross error for which all the google > >>>> results say "RTFM n00b. Use Java5." > >>>> > >>>> [exec] validate-sitemap: > >>>> [exec] > /Users/jhodges/projects/apache-forrest-0.8/main/webapp/resources/schema/relaxng/sitemap-v06.rng:72:31: > >>>> error: datatype library "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-datatypes"; > >>>> not recognized > >>>> > >>>> But I've included -Djava5.home right there. What am I missing? > >>>> -- > >>>> Jeff > >>> > >>> > > > > >
