Re: problem installing/building wget on macOS High Sierra

On 1/3/18 12:06 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jan 2, 2018, at 11:40, Pavel Ahafonau <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi Alexander,
>>
>> Installation of wget on macOS High Sierra via fink is now requiring a java version higher than the latest approved by Apple (1.6.0_65).
>>
> 
> I believe that’s “grudgingly supplied”, not “approved”.   Apple has been trying to get rid of Java 6 for a while now.
> 
>> If you can fix it - please do so.
>>
> 
> I can’t.  The dependency isn’t directly in wget, but its dependency libidn, for which I am not the maintainer.  I believe libidn was deliberately updated to use a more modern Java because Apple hadn’t released Java 6 for High Sierra yet.

libidn was patched to use java >= 6 syntax because the build flat-out 
failed for users that had java9 installed.

The libidn build needs Java because it is set up to build a java-plugin 
implementation of libidn. That is not separable from the rest of the 
build process as far as I know.

The rest of what AKH says with regards to wget is accurate. The problem, 
such as it is, is not with wget but with libidn. If you know a way to 
decouple the libidn java-plugin creation from the main library build, 
please let us know.

Hanspeter

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