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Re: Work in progress - Archlinux OpenOffice 2.0 against GCJ
- From: Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat dot com>
- To: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:36:28 +0000
- Subject: Re: Work in progress - Archlinux OpenOffice 2.0 against GCJ
- References: <455460F3.30804@hush.com>
Chris Stromblad wrote:
> 1. Has any effort been put into porting Apache-ant to compile
> against GCJ? As OOo depends on ant, which in turn depends on
> Sun JDK/JRE, OOo would indirectly no longer be "free".
Fedora has shipped with a gcj-compiled OO.o for a year or so now.
You could look in there to see how it was done.
> 2. Another problem when attempting to use the java-gcj-compat
> package wrapper scripts, below is the output from running javac
> with no arguments:
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main not found
This is because java-gcj-compat uses the Eclipse Java compiler
for it's javac command, and you presumably don't have that
installed.
Cheers,
Gary