Re: gcj build problems (again)

[Paul Gear <paulgear at bigfoot dot com>]

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> 
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> > >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Gear <paulgear@bigfoot.com> writes:
> >
> > Paul> This is probably a silly question, but is there any way to get a
> > Paul> usable gcj/libgcj using one of the prepackaged versions from Red
> > Paul> Hat (i.e. in RHL 7.0 or Rawhide) without having to recompile
> > Paul> major parts of the compiler or libraries?
> >
> > Sure.  Red Hat Linux 7 includes gcj and libgcj.  Offhand I don't know
> > what the packages are called (I was only indirectly involved in making
> > them).  If you go this route you don't get the absolute latest
> > versions, but you get something pretty good.
> 
> The packages are:
> 
> gcc-java (the compiler)
> libgcj (runtime)
> libgcj-devel (CNI headers)
> 
> You'll find them on disc2 of Red Hat 7.0

I know what they are and where to find them, i just found that they
didn't work.  :-)  Some of my code uses inner classes, and i understand
this was a known limitation until recently.  As well as this, i couldn't
build gnome-gcj - it failed with a lot of seemingly stupid linker
problems.

Paul
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