Re: Experience in converting to GCJ
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:23:55PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> Looking at the configure file, and the bits that make it up, there is some
> specific hand coded function to look for various bits of the JVM that
> is to be used, much of which does not exist in GCJ. For a start they
> look for an executable called javac, and do not seem to ask
> update-alternatives if javac is defined (which would be the Debian
> way - or should be).
You should change it to invoke gcj-wrapper rather than javac, if you want to
ensure that it uses gcj (which would be appropriate for a package build).
> They then look for java in the bin directory of JAVAHOME, libjvm.so
> and then various checks for green libraries, and a bunch of include
> files and finish off checking that this java knows about JNI.
JAVA_HOME seems silly in Debian, where we have alternatives to manage these
things. I wish it would go away.
Does it actually use libjvm.so? Probably most of these checks can be
disabled.
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- mdz
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