Java in Hurd
Hello,
Can we use Java in Hurd now?
I failed to install kaffe with apt-install. Here is the error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kaffe: Depends: kaffe-pthreads (>= 2:1.1.8-5) but it is not installable or
kaffe-jthreads (>= 2:1.1.8-5) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
So I tried to compile it by myself. I install a Java compiler jikes and
a bunch of libraries required by kaffe.
I did compile kaffe with jthreads successfully, but I still cannot run
the Java program.
(null):~/tmp# java Test
Internal error: caught an unexpected exception.
Please check your CLASSPATH and your installation.
java/lang/UnsatisfiedLinkError: Native library `javanio' not found (as
file `libjavanio.so' in class loader null) in
gnu.classpath.boot.library.path and java.library.path
`[/usr/local/kaffe/jre/lib/i386/, /usr/local/kaffe/lib/,
/usr/share/classpath//lib/classpath/, /X11R6/lib/]'
at java.lang.ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader (ClassLoader.java:799)
Aborted
So I tried to install classpath. I couldn't install it with apt-get.
Here is the error:
(null):~/tmp# apt-get install classpath
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package classpath is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
classpath-common
E: Package classpath has no installation candidate
Again, I tried to compile it myself. However, I was not lucky this time.
In order to compile classpath, I installed gtk+-2.0, libgconf2 and some
other libraries. However, I still couldn't compile it.
Here is the problem when I tried to configure it:
configure:29654: checking for javac
configure:29670: found /usr/bin/javac
configure:29681: result: javac -Xlint:unchecked
configure:29741: checking if javac -Xlint:unchecked works
configure:29761: javac -Xlint:unchecked -source 1.5 -target 1.5 Object.java
Error: The option "-Xlint:unchecked" is unsupported in this build.
configure:29764: $? = 2
configure:29768: error: The Java compiler javac -Xlint:unchecked failed
(see config.log, check the CLASSPATH?)
It seems that jikes doesn't support -Xlint:unchecked and I suppose gcj
supports it, but I don't know how to install gcj. I cannot install it
with apt-get. Do I have to download the whole gcc source code and
compile it?
I searched for Java and Hurd with google, and did see some discussion
about it, but they are all 10 years ago.
I hope a lot of things have changed in the past 10 years. Is there any
easy way to install jvm and the compiler in Hurd?
Zheng Da
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