Building Mac OS X

Sam Pullara spullara at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 16:27:25 PDT 2012


I'm using the latest JDK7u6 released from Oracle:

macpro:graal sam$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_06-ea"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_06-ea-b21)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.2-b09, mixed mode)

Then I executed:

echo "JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_06.jdk/Contents/Home" >mx/env
./mx.sh build

Those both completed successfully.  Finally when I run the vm command, I get this:

macpro:graal sam$ ./mx.sh vm
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:542)
	at java.lang.System.initProperties(Native Method)
	at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(System.java:1115)

Looks like a null value is being provided at initialization. Any ideas on how to get this part to work?

Thanks,
Sam



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