Scilab 5.2.2 fails to start on Mac OS 10.6.3

[Kay-Uwe Goetz]

Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru at ...> writes:

> 
> It would be nice if you could try again Scilab 5.2.1 to see if it
> happens or not
> I made a small change to improve the Java detection (the previous was
> not Apple-official) [1] & [2]
> If it is working with Scilab 5.2.1 and not with Scilab 5.2.2, this might
> be the cause of the issue.
> If Scilab 5.2.1 works, could you give me the output of:
> /usr/libexec/java_home --arch x86_64 --failfast --version 1.6+
> and
> ls /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home/
> 
> Thanks for your feedback guys. It is appreciated!
> 
> Sylvestre


Sylvestre,

5.2.1 doesn't work on my iMac. I've tried all available versions, including 
one of the nightly builds.

Here are some outputs under 5.2.1: (SCIVERBOSE=1)

Kay-Uwe-Gotzs-iMac:bin kgoetz$ ./scilabSCILABBIN : scilab-bin
DISABLE_JAVA_DETECTION : 0
SCILAB_MODE : gui
Using default Mac OS X vm: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home/
And LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home//../Libra
ries:
JAVA_HOME : /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home/
Cannot find /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Home//lib//libjava.jni
lib
SCI : /Applications/scilab-5.2.1.app/Contents/MacOS
SCIBIN : ./scilab-bin
PATH : /Applications/scilab-5.2.1.app/Contents/MacOS:/Applications/scilab-
5.2.1.app/Contents/MacOS/bin:.:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:
/usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH : /Applications/scilab-5.2.1.app/Contents/MacOS/bin:/
Applications/scilab-
5.2.1.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/scilab/:/Applications/scilab-
5.2.1.app/Contents/MacOS/lib64/scilab/:/System/Library/Frameworks/
JavaVM.framework/Home//../Libraries::/sw/lib/
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH: :/Applications/scilab-
5.2.1.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/scilab/:/Applications/scilab-5.2.1.app/
Contents/MacOS/lib/thirdparty/
DOCBOOK : /Applications/scilab-5.2.1.app/Contents/MacOS/thirdparty/
docbook
Error checking symlink for the target jvm.
^C




Kay-Uwe-Gotzs-iMac:bin kgoetz$ ls /System/Library/Frameworks
/JavaVM.framework/Home
appledocs.jar	docs.jar	man
bin		include		shared_bundle
bundle		lib		src.jar





Kay-Uwe-Gotzs-iMac:bin kgoetz$ /usr/libexec/java_home --arch 
x86_64 --failfast --version 1.6+
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home



Regards
Kay-Uwe