Aqua Status and Build Process Questions

[Scott Palmer]

I was trying to run NB7 with OpenJDK 7, expecting some issues.

Scott

On 2011-07-31, at 8:25 AM, Henri Gomez <henri.gomez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Scott
>
> You mentioned  OpenJDK 7 and NetBeans 7.
>
> Did you try to use NetBeans 7 to make Java 7 apps or to run NetBeans 7
> with OpenJDK 7 ?
>
> 2011/7/30 Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com>:
>> I've been doing my own builds and I'm starting to question if I'm doing them correctly.
>> First I tried to run Netbeans 7.0.1rc1 and ran into this issue:
>> http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT-203
>>
>> But I used the trick mentioned there to get Netbeans to launch and I noticed this in the log:
>>
>>        "Custom UI class apple.laf.AquaLookAndFeel not on class path."
>>
>> From the project status page (http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port+Project+Status) it looks like the Aqua LnF is mostly complete, and I thought I read here that it was enabled weeks ago.
>>
>> But Netbeans 7.0.1rc1 doesn't seem to enable the screen  menu bar and uses the Java default LnF.
>>
>> I build by pulling and updating the main repo, then running the get_source.sh script.  Then I run this custom batch script to build the code:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> export LANG=C
>> unset JAVA_HOME
>> export CC=/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2
>> export CXX=/Developer/usr/bin/llvm-g++-4.2
>> export ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true
>> export SA_APPLE_BOOT_JAVA=true
>> export ALWAYS_PASS_TEST_GAMMA=true
>> export ALT_BOOTDIR=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.6`
>> make $1
>>
>>
>> Whenever the build fails I make sure to do a "make clean" and then "make" and it seems to work.
>>
>> Then I can run Java 7 with:
>>  `/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7`/bin/java
>>
>> The path returned for java_home is:
>>  /Users/scott/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.7.0.jdk/Contents/Home
>>
>> and java -version returns:
>>
>> $ `/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7`/bin/java -version
>> openjdk version "1.7.0-internal"
>> OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-internal-scott_2011_07_28_22_41-b00)
>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)
>>
>> The timestamp on the version indicates it is using what I've just compiled.
>>
>> Am I missing something, or is Aqua still not usable?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Scott