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Re: Need test of patch for OS X
From: |
Ben Abbott |
Subject: |
Re: Need test of patch for OS X |
Date: |
Tue, 10 May 2016 19:00:08 +0000 |
> On May 10, 2016, at 11:24 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 05/10/2016 10:50 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>
>> I did not modify octave.rb (the problems I saw occurred when building with
>> Fink)
>>
>> I checked the formula for Octave. There is a note to use the Java JDK from
>> the link below.
>>
>> https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=en_US
>
> Does it work if you have a current version of the JVM installed?
>
> Currently, Octave's configure script is checking for the existence and
> location of the JVM shared library. And on OS X systems (only) the JVM is
> linked with Octave and calls are made to JVM initialization functions
> directly. But the goal is to use the same method of dynamically loading the
> JVM and calling the initialization functions through function pointers
> (obtained from dlsym or an equivalent method).
>
> Also, instead of only using the location of the JVM that is determined by the
> configure script, I want to fix this so Octave finds the JVM at run time
> based on things like JAVA_HOME or looking in the registry (on Windows
> systems). There should be no need for the JVM to be installed on the build
> system. Only the jni.h file, and, if building from the hg sources, the tools
> necessary to compile .jar files.
>
> jwe
I don’t think there is a standard JVM install for Mac OS X. Perhaps that is why
OS X is handled differently?
Even so, I’d prefer that everything depend upon JAVA_HOME at run time. That
would make it much simpler to tweak things and get Octave+Java to play nice
with Mac OS X.
Ben
- Need test of patch for OS X, John W. Eaton, 2016/05/09
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Ben Abbott, 2016/05/09
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, John W. Eaton, 2016/05/09
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Ben Abbott, 2016/05/09
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Ben Abbott, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Ben Abbott, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Sebastian, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Ben Abbott, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, John W. Eaton, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X,
Ben Abbott <=
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, John W. Eaton, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Alexander Hansen, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, John W. Eaton, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Alexander Hansen, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, John W. Eaton, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Marius Schamschula, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Alexander Hansen, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, John W. Eaton, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Alexander Hansen, 2016/05/10
- Re: Need test of patch for OS X, Sebastian, 2016/05/10