Re: [Fink-users] Octave on 10.10 and java>=1.7

[Erkcan Ö. <erk...@bo...>]

Hi again,

Apologies for the previous email, I just saw that there was another thread from just 4 days ago. I found my answer there. Please disregard my question.

Best,
e.


> On 23 Nov 2014, at 11:45, Erkcan Özcan <erk...@bo...> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have recently updated to yosemite. While trying to get fink up from scratch, I found out that I cannot install octave due to its dependency on legacy java. I would like to refrain from installing java6 just to get octave. I searched the fink-users archieves and found the following thread on this issue (from about a month ago):
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/thread/4B4E3329-6FC5-4AAC-8C93-7433A037663D%40trellick.net/#msg32972923 <http://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/fink-users/thread/4B4...@tr.../#msg32972923>
> 
> Quoting Viv from there: "But I can confirm that octave382 builds on 10.9 (with the java dependency changed from 1.6 to 1.7) using your latest file which has one extra 1.6 that I changed in a local copy.  And that trying to install oct382 packages fails to find the JRE with the same error as before.”
> 
> And later A. Hansen: "I believe that indicates that the build as-is really wants Apple’s Legacy Java.  It’s going to take some heavy-duty tweaking to make it work with later Javas, then, since Octave needs to link to their libs, which are in versioned directories.”
> 
> I was wondering if there were any further developments in the past month. I searched quite a bit in the gnu octave forums and from what I read it seemed to me that at least on linux, java 1.7 was no problem.
> 
> If we don’t use any octave add-on packages, but simply use the “basic” octave, would changing the requirements octave-3.8.2.info to java-1.7 be ok?
> 
> Cheers,
> e.

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