New gcj in rawhide

[Andrew Haley]

The new gcj package with version 5 libraries and compiler has been
available in rawhide for a couple of weeks now.  

This package is available from the yum development repo as
gcc-java.*.4.1.2-3.

If you are a maintainer of a package that has a dependency on libgcj
please make sure that your package builds.  I don't expect there to be
many problems, but it's worth checking.

Thanks,
Andrew.

[Mark Wielaard]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 11:45 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>  The new gcj package with version 5 libraries and compiler has been
>  available in rawhide for a couple of weeks now.   
This is super cool. Just ran the new eclipse package in rawhide and got
1.5 language and library support working out of the box. Nice!

OpenOffice.org seems unhappy though. When starting it it spins for a
while (100% cpu for 5 seconds) and then just says:
$ ooffice
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! 
(It does then start up though)

Cheers,

Mark

[Andrew Haley]

Mark Wielaard writes:
>  On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 11:45 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>  > The new gcj package with version 5 libraries and compiler has been
>  > available in rawhide for a couple of weeks now.  
>  
>  This is super cool. Just ran the new eclipse package in rawhide and got
>  1.5 language and library support working out of the box. Nice!
>  
>  OpenOffice.org seems unhappy though. When starting it it spins for a
>  while (100% cpu for 5 seconds) and then just says:
>  $ ooffice
>  javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! 
>  (It does then start up though) 
OK.  I suspect that the first place to start looking for that is
java-1.5.0-gcj.  I guess you've already made sure your alternatives
are pointing to the right place.

Andrew.

[Mark Wielaard]

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 14:55 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
>  Mark Wielaard writes:
>   > OpenOffice.org seems unhappy though. When starting it it spins for a
>   > while (100% cpu for 5 seconds) and then just says:
>   > $ ooffice
>   > javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! 
>   > (It does then start up though)
>  
>  OK.  I suspect that the first place to start looking for that is
>  java-1.5.0-gcj. 
$ rpm -q java-1.5.0-gcj
java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-4.fc7
java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-4.fc7

>    I guess you've already made sure your alternatives
>  are pointing to the right place. 
$ /usr/sbin/alternatives --display java
java - status is auto.
 link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java
/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java - priority 1500
 slave keytool: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/keytool
 slave rmiregistry: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/rmiregistry
 slave jre_exports: /usr/lib/jvm-exports/jre-1.5.0-gcj
 slave jre: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj
/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj.x86_64/bin/java - priority 1500
 slave keytool: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj.x86_64/bin/keytool
 slave rmiregistry: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj.x86_64/bin/rmiregistry
 slave jre_exports: /usr/lib/jvm-exports/jre-1.5.0-gcj.x86_64
 slave jre: /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj.x86_64
Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-gcj/bin/java.

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
>  On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 11:45 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > The new gcj package with version 5 libraries and compiler has been
> > available in rawhide for a couple of weeks now.  
>  
>  This is super cool. Just ran the new eclipse package in rawhide and got
>  1.5 language and library support working out of the box. Nice!
>  
>  OpenOffice.org seems unhappy though. When starting it it spins for a
>  while (100% cpu for 5 seconds) and then just says:
>  $ ooffice
>  javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! 
>  (It does then start up though) 
Is this with java-1.5.0-gcj?  If so, can you see if:

ln -s java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj

helps?

Tom

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Tom,

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 12:22 -0400, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
>  > OpenOffice.org seems unhappy though. When starting it it spins
> for a
>  > while (100% cpu for 5 seconds) and then just says:
>  > $ ooffice
>  > javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! 
>  > (It does then start up though)
>  
>  Is this with java-1.5.0-gcj? 
I think so. javaldx seems to go through lots of locations to find
something called java and then tries to run the JREProperties class
(from /usr/lib64/openoffice.org/program/ on it). Running that class by
hand seems to go fine, but all it does is print out some mysterious
numbers that don't tell me anything.

>    If so, can you see if:
>  
>  ln -s java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj
>  
>  helps? 
Not that I can see.

Cheers,

Mark