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Re: name of libgcj.jar
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:40:27 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: name of libgcj.jar
On 20 Jan 2002, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
>
> Matthias> java runtime environment consists of the libgcj* libraries,
> Matthias> libgcj.jar und gij.
>
> Actually, libgcj.jar is part of the devel package. It is needed by
> gcj in order to compile. However, it should not be needed at runtime.
> If it is needed, then that is a bug.
There are some obscure uses of libgcj.jar, like
getResource("java/lang/Object.class");
as done in javac, for instance. For that to work you'd have to add
libgcj.jar to the CLASSPATH. I don't see it as a real problem though.
Jeff