Re: Failing Java tests due to no JRE

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 14:59:59 -0700, Rik wrote:
> I'm testing the 4.2.0-rc1 candidate on a Windows XP virtual machine which
> does not have Java installed.  When using __run_test_suite__ all of the
> Java tests fail (Duh!).  The issue is that all of the tests begin with
> 
> %!testif HAVE_JAVA
> 
> Certainly, when Octave was cross-compiled with MXE Java was available, but
> now at runtime there is no Java environment.  Should all of these tests
> begin with
> 
> %!testif HAVE_JAVA
> %! if (! usejava ("jvm"))
> %!   return;
> 
> so that if no JVM is available at run time they are not executed?

Yes I think that's a good idea. It's also possible to run Octave on any
GNU or Unix system with no JRE installed and the same test failure would
happen there.

-- 
mike