[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53305] usejava ("awt") may fail on macOS

[Sebastian]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53305>

                 Summary: usejava ("awt") may fail on macOS 
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: sschoeps
            Submitted on: Thu 08 Mar 2018 03:28:24 PM UTC
                Category: Octave Function
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Sebastian Schöps
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: Mac OS

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Details:

Calling usejava ("awt") triggers a GUI dialog box to install the outdated
Apple Java 1.6


To open "application" you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime.


It is not clear whether this dialog box is a macOS or Octave issue. Java was
previously supplied by Apple (version <=1.6) and now it comes from Sun (>1.6).
Sun's Java is treated on macOS like on Unix, while Apple's Java needed a
special treatment for linking "-framework...". 

I have compiled java code on macOS that contains awt without issues (example
attached), so it seems not actually necessary to get the Java SE 6.

This issue was initially discussed at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?53151.




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File Attachments:


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Date: Thu 08 Mar 2018 03:28:24 PM UTC  Name: test_AWT.java  Size: 169B   By:
sschoeps
simple JAVA source file to test AWT
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=43491>

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