I downloaded a jdk7 tarball to test parity with some old software during an upgrade. When I unpacked it I of course got a bunch of quarantined files. After not finding a way to remove the quarantine flag from the symlinks in the unpacked directory, I finally got smart, unquarantined the package itself, deleted everything and re-extracted the tarball.
NS2-MacBook-Pro:tools gus$ sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Users/gus/tools/zulu7.40.0.15-ca-jdk7.0.272-macosx_x64.tar.gz
NS2-MacBook-Pro:tools gus$ rm -rf zulu7.40.0.15-ca-jdk7.0.272-macosx_x64
NS2-MacBook-Pro:tools gus$ tar xzvf zulu7.40.0.15-ca-jdk7.0.272-macosx_x64.tar.gz
NS2-MacBook-Pro:tools gus$ ls -al@ ~/tools/zulu7.40.0.15-ca-jdk7.0.272-macosx_x64/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 19 gus staff 608 Jul 7 11:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 43 gus staff 1376 Oct 14 20:03 ..
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 43 Jul 9 22:27 ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/ASSEMBLY_EXCEPTION
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 49 Jul 9 22:27 CLASSPATH_EXCEPTION_NOTE -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/CLASSPATH_EXCEPTION_NOTE
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 35 Jul 9 22:27 DISCLAIMER -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/DISCLAIMER
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 32 Jul 9 22:27 LICENSE -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/LICENSE
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 43 Jul 9 22:27 THIRD_PARTY_README -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/THIRD_PARTY_README
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 37 Jul 9 22:27 Welcome.html -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/Welcome.html
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 28 Jul 9 22:27 bin -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/bin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 29 Jul 9 22:27 demo -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/demo
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 32 Jul 9 22:27 include -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/include
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 28 Jul 9 22:27 jre -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 28 Jul 9 22:27 lib -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/lib
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 28 Jul 9 22:27 man -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/man
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 35 Jul 9 22:27 readme.txt -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/readme.txt
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 32 Jul 9 22:27 release -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/release
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 31 Jul 9 22:27 sample -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/sample
lrwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 32 Jul 9 22:27 src.zip -> zulu-7.jdk/Contents/Home/src.zip
drwxr-xr-x 3 gus staff 96 Jul 7 11:27 zulu-7.jdk
NS2-MacBook-Pro:tools gus$ ls -al@ ~/tools/zulu7.40.0.15-ca-jdk7.0.272-macosx_x64/bin/java
-rwxr-xr-x 1 gus staff 110880 Jul 9 22:27 /Users/gus/tools/zulu7.40.0.15-ca-jdk7.0.272-macosx_x64/bin/java
This seemed successful since I was now able to run the java command in the unpacked directory from my terminal command line,
NS2-MacBook-Pro:tools gus$ ~/tools/zulu7.40.0.15-ca-jdk7.0.272-macosx_x64/bin/java
Usage: java [-options] class [args...]
(to execute a class)
... etc ...
And that works for enclosing in backtics or $() too but... but the ant build (or any bash invocation) still can't seem to run it.
NS2-MacBook-Pro:tools gus$ bash ~/tools/zulu7.40.0.15-ca-jdk7.0.272-macosx_x64/bin/java
/Users/gus/tools/zulu7.40.0.15-ca-jdk7.0.272-macosx_x64/bin/java: /Users/gus/tools/zulu7.40.0.15-ca-jdk7.0.272-macosx_x64/bin/java: cannot execute binary file
or
NS2-MacBook-Pro:tools gus$ ant
Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.
We cannot execute ~/tools/zulu7.40.0.15-ca-jdk7.0.272-macosx_x64/bin/java
None of this ever gave me problems before Catalina...
So the question is what should I be tweaking to make the JDK work from any context?
