Mark Taylor wrote:
>
> This error message is telling you that a java runtime earlier than
> java 1.8 is trying to execute some java classfiles that were compiled
> using java 1.8. I haven't looked at the details of the starlink
> starjava installation, but probably if you look at the script that
> your 'stilts' invocation is running, you'll find that one way or
> another it's picking up an earlier java version. Presumably
> it should be picking up the Java Runtime Environment that's
> distributed with the starlink package (/star/java/jre/bin/java?).
On OSX we don't distribute the Java JRE as part of Starlink; its a
required dependency that users must install themselves.
On my computers it has always just picked up my normal java from my
PATH, but looking at the 'starjava' script it does try and search
through various other locations it thinks it might be in.
--
Dr Sarah Graves
Scientific Programmer
East Asian Observatory/JCMT
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