mer, 23 Dec 2009, Ian Clark skribis: > Bill, > > I've no real idea what I'm doing here... > > (1) I open "Java preferences.app" and ensure that preferred Java is 64bit. > There's two terminal apps: X11.app and terminal.app. The latter looks > a bit more friendly. I run it and type: > > Last login: Wed Dec 23 14:29:15 on ttys000 > ian-clarks-imac:~ ianclark$ ls -l 'which java' > ls: which java: No such file or directory > ian-clarks-imac:~ ianclark$ ls -l `which java` > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 74 22 Dec 11:41 /usr/bin/java -> > /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java > ian-clarks-imac:~ ianclark$ > > Right, that gives me a path. I navigate to that folder using Finder. I > see file 'java' is a "Unix executable". I drop it onto TextEdit. It > appears to contain machine code, not a script. It is 73 KB -- a bit > small to be anything but a wrapper, wouldn't you say? > > (2) Back to "Java preferences.app" and make it 32bit. > > Last login: Wed Dec 23 14:32:36 on ttys000 > ian-clarks-imac:~ ianclark$ ls -l `which java` > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 74 22 Dec 11:41 /usr/bin/java -> > /system/library/frameworks/javavm.framework/versions/Current/Commands/java > ian-clarks-imac:~ ianclark$ > > ...nothing seem to have changed.
I suspect /Current/ is a symlink to another folder, try ls -l /system/library/frameworks/javavm.framework/versions for 32 and 64 bit java preferences to see if any changes? -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
