"J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost> writes: > That's right; as of Mac OS X Lion (10.7), Java is no longer included. I > haven't tried the pkgsrc version lately. I tried it a few years ago, it > failed to build, and I gave up. My working impression since then has > been that OpenJDK is not well-supported on Mac OS X. I could certainly > be wrong, though. In fact, I hope I'm wrong! But I haven't revisited > it; I've just used the Oracle distribution since I knew that worked. So if someone speaks up and says "building openjdk from source on mac works great", we can talk about switching, but until then expecting a binary install of the oracle jdk is probably the best bet for most users (as much as I would prefer to point to Free software).
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