Re: Experience in converting to GCJ
Hallo David,
* David Goodenough wrote:
>Does anyone have experience they could share in converting a Java DEB to use
>GCJ where available.
RedHat has a nice project using gcj to compile a lot of packages. Also
they have compield eclispe using ant and gcj.
>In particular I want to convert kdebindings so that it can be accepted into
>main.
If you just need an javac, take jikes...
>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).
Actually the way to get a u-a maintained javac, is taking
/usr/bin/javac.
>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.
I haven't used gcj, but you should be able to point JAVA_HOME to the
right dir. If everything fails, patch it...
Good luck! Maybe you want to try kaffe...
Jan
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