1.7 on a PPC box

[John Yeary]

Hello Drechsel,

Java will not appear in the Java-Settings application, and I am unaware of
any attempts to make it appear there. It will work for the OS X port, but
not-the BSD port.

John

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Drechsel Wolf <edv-e at verkehrsplanung.com>wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I installed
>
> http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/**static/soylatte/bsd-dist/**
> openjdk7_darwin/openjdk7-**macppc-2009-12-16-b4.tar.bz2<http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/bsd-dist/openjdk7_darwin/openjdk7-macppc-2009-12-16-b4.tar.bz2>
>
> on my Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard, PPC G4.
>
> I adjusted  PATH and JAVA_HOME, and
>
> '$ java -version' delivers
>
> $ java -version
> openjdk version "1.7.0-internal"
> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build
> 1.7.0-internal-landonf_2009_**12_16_12_54-b00)
> OpenJDK Zero VM (build 17.0-b05, interpreted mode)
>
> So the installation seems to have gone right.
>
> But when I open Utilities/Java-Settings.app, only the outdated 1.4.x und
> 1.5.x java versions are displayed; if I launch a more recent java app, that
> one states that only java 1.5.x is installed.
>
> What can I do to notify the system that there is java 1.7 installed?
>
> Thanks and greetings,
>
> Wolf
>



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