Re: heads-up on MacOS X & Java

[Sebastian Schöps]

> The patch doesn’t apply for me. Perhaps because there is no context info and 
> confgure.ac has changed since you attached it.

Currently java on macOS is differently handled than on other platforms. This 
was necessary in former times but now it's rather harmful. My patch just 
disables this if statement. 

You can manually change in file "libinterp/octave-value/ov-java.cc" the line
"#if ! defined (__APPLE__) && ! defined (__MACH__)" into "#if 1". Additionally 
the statement "-framework JavaVM" must be removed from "configure.ac".

> Is there a convenient test for Java?

just calling "javaclasspath" should tell you whether it works. I recommend 
uninstalling Java 1.6 before these tests to actually see whether it works. 

Sebastian