kaffe @1.1.7 fails to find X

[leonhardt.ralph@…]

Installation trouble with java kaffe

ralph-leonhardts-macbook-air:~ ralphleonhardt$ sudo port install -d kaffe
--->  Computing dependencies for kaffe
--->  Configuring kaffe
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: configure failure: shell command " cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_lang_kaffe/work/kaffe-1.1.7" && ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --disable-nls --disable-rpath --disable-debug --with-engine=intrp --mandir=/opt/local/share/man " returned error 1
Command output: checking for time... yes
checking for mktime... yes
checking for localtime_r... yes
checking for strerror_r... yes
checking for fcntl... yes
checking for mmap... yes
checking for munmap... yes
checking for mincore... yes
checking for msync... yes
checking for madvise... yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for sysconf... yes
checking for isnan... yes
checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h
checking for struct tm.tm_zone... yes
checking for tm_gmtoff in struct tm... yes
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for __attribute__... yes
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin9/4.0.1/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/libexec/gcc/i686-apple-darwin9/4.0.1/ld) is GNU ld... no
checking for shared library run path origin... /bin/sh: ./config.rpath: No such file or directory
done
checking for iconv... yes
checking how to link with libiconv... -liconv
checking for iconv declaration... 
         extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
checking for X... no
configure: error: GTK+ peers requested but no X library available
configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for libraries/javalib/external/classpath

Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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ralph-leonhardts-macbook-air:~ ralphleonhardt$ 

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

We have other tickets about kaffe which suggest it is not expected to work on Mac OS X at this time. Can you use the java that's already provided by Mac OS X?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

r71932 (note that #13858 may still remain)