[Libreoffice] Java build problem identified | findhome | MacOSX location ?

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Christian Lohmaier
<lohmaier at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Norbert, *,
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Thorsten Behrens
>> <thb at documentfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> Caolan McNamara wrote:
>>>> IIRC I tried this before, and there was some cockup under MacOSX, so if
>>>> someone on MacOSX could see what findhome says and if its correct/wrong
>>>> vs what works correctly there, that'd be helpful.
>>>>
>>> About 4k miles away from my MacBook currently - Norbert, Cloph,
>>> any chance to give this a try?
>>
>> Cloph, Wol and me have been working on it on IRC, resulting in
>> bootstrap:474e4b60fec1f859bc16f268d6340d7850c7874e
>
> Hmm - but the result of the IRC-discussion was to use (for Mac)
> /usr/libexec/java_home where available (10.5 and newer), and the
> hardcoded fallbackpath of either
> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Home
> or /Library/Java/Home (which in the end points to the
> /System/Library..... one.
>
> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa2001/qa1170.html
> wasn't it?
>

Yes indeed.

Which is not what the result is. since the readlink cruf is still
attempted before that... I'll have a pass at it to re-order these.

Norbert

> I quit IRC early, so have to read some of the backlog, but my
> impression was that this was the way to go..
>
> ciao
> Christian
>