[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #53305] usejava ("awt") may fail on macOS

[Andrew Janke]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #53305 (project octave):

> It is not clear whether this dialog box is a macOS or Octave issue.

This "No Java runtime present, requesting install" dialog box that pops up, at
least when using a Java 1.8 JDK, is a bug in older builds of Oracle's JDK 1.8.
Newer builds (like u171) don't have this issue.

Could just ask users to install a newer update of the JDK.

I can confirm that I used to get this dialog, and it went away for me when I
upgraded my JDK 1.8 to u171.

If you really want to work around it for older JDK 1.8 builds, you can
dynamically load `libjli.dylib`, which seems to suppress use of the Apple Java
1.6 loader stub that produces this message.

Reference: https://github.com/s-u/rJava/issues/37


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