Yes, that seems to work. It returns:
"The operation couldn’t be completed. Unable to locate a Java Runtime.
Please visit http://www.java.com for information on installing Java.

no"

On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 5:11 AM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
Benjamin McMillan <mcmillanbb@gmail.com> writes:

> A call of "java --version" returns
> "The operation couldn’t be completed. Unable to locate a Java Runtime.
> Please visit http://www.java.com for information on installing Java."
> This is on a mac, it seems that they provide a stub of java, but not the
> full environment.

Hmm. What about the return code? Something like
java --version && echo "yes" || echo "no"

> Is it possible that the test suite takes this response to mean that java is
> available, even though it is not?

The test simply checks if there is an executable. Whether it is working
or not is not tested.

Maybe we can use java --version somehow (as in the above).

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