[OSM-talk] End of road for JOSM on OS X for ppc

[Aun Yngve Johnsen]

I have tried to compile OpenJDK6 under Darwin development environment  
in Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, but it doesn't execute JOSM correctly. I have  
problems opening JOSM, none of my plugins execute. I don't know if  
this is something with OpenJDK or with the plugins. It would be best  
if Apple got an official Sun JDK6 release, as Sun only points to apple  
when trying to download Java.

I am temporarily  solving the problem with running last Java5 release  
of JOSM, but understand that this is only a temporary solution

brgds
Aun Johnsen



On 16/09/2010, at 10:54, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:41, Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> 2010/9/16 Arigead <captain.deadly at gmail.com>:
>>> Renaud MICHEL wrote:
>>>> Le mardi 14 septembre 2010 à 16:32, Arigead a écrit :
>>>>> Don't think that changing the OS to Ubuntu will make any  
>>>>> difference.
>>>>> I've not checked but if you do change to Ubuntu you'll still be  
>>>>> trying
>>>>> to download the Java version for Linux on PPC. I don't think  
>>>>> that will
>>>>> be supported by sun. But like I say I've not checked. The latest  
>>>>> Java is
>>>>> only supported on Intel 86 Arch as far as I remember.
>>>>
>>>> If you want the "official" java from Sun (which doesn't even exists
>>>> anymore), no.
>>>>
>>>> But openjdk can be compiled on other architecture.
>>>> Debian has it for alpha amd64 armel i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc  
>>>> sparc, see
>>>> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openjdk-6-jre
>>>> so ubuntu should too
>>>>
>>>
>>> I tried that for something else but unfortunately the Java6 source  
>>> was
>>> trying to run features which were not implemented by the open source
>>> JRE's. Still you're right that an open JRE might implement enough  
>>> of the
>>> spec to get JOSM off the ground.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting, I run lastest JOSM with OpenJDK without any big fuss on
>> Ubuntu 10.04.
>>
>> It should run on Mac OS X.
>
> It should, but Mac OS X users in general seem to be more interested in
> demanding that Apple do things for them instead of helping themselves,
> so apps like that don't get ported.
>
> Actually I'd be willing to bet that compiling OpenJDK 6 on OSX PPC
> against X11.app is a relatively trivial matter if you apply the
> patches from FreeBSD, but probably nobody has tried that yet, and even
> if they did OSX users feel icky when they have to run anything under
> X11.app.
>
> *sigh*
>
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