-- prefix ..? um sure

[Andrew Haley]

Jeremy Greiner writes:
 > ok in fear of sounding like a newbie I am going to try to word my
 > question carefully:

Right.  :-)

 > I am trying to run gcj.

Which gcj?  
Where did you get it from?  
Did you build it and install it yourself?
What OS are you running?
Type ``gcj --version'' and tell us what it says.

 > when I run it to compile a java file (gcj something.java)
 > I get the error gcj: libgcj.spec: No such file or directory.

You have gcj but not libgcj.  Most of the power of the Java language
comes from its extensive library: without libgcj, gcj won't work at
all.

Andrew.