Re: Failing Java tests due to no JRE

[Rik]

On 09/15/2016 08:12 AM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 14:59:59 -0700, Rik wrote:
>> I'm testing the 4.2.0-rc1 candidate on a Windows XP virtual machine which
>> does not have Java installed.  When using __run_test_suite__ all of the
>> Java tests fail (Duh!).  The issue is that all of the tests begin with
>>
>> %!testif HAVE_JAVA
>>
>> Certainly, when Octave was cross-compiled with MXE Java was available, but
>> now at runtime there is no Java environment.  Should all of these tests
>> begin with
>>
>> %!testif HAVE_JAVA
>> %! if (! usejava ("jvm"))
>> %!   return;
>>
>> so that if no JVM is available at run time they are not executed?
> Yes I think that's a good idea. It's also possible to run Octave on any
> GNU or Unix system with no JRE installed and the same test failure would
> happen there.
>

Done.  See cset http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a3f74fed899b.

--Rik