[fedora-java] failing jar compilation

[Andrew Overholt]

* Anthony Green <green at redhat.com> [2005-03-15 15:16]:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:50 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > * Anthony Green <green at redhat.com> [2005-03-15 13:43]:
> > > 
> > > Why bother compiling to bytecode in the stage 1?  We can avoid this bug
> > > by simply compiling straight to native code from the java source.
> > 
> > Actually, on second thought, I don't know if this will work.  We need the
> > system's java-gcj-compat to use the ecj we've just built (with gcj) and the
> > only way I can think of doing this is by setting GCJ_PROPERTIES.
> > 
> > I guess I could compile the stuff to a binary called "javac" and set
> > PATH=.:$PATH, but I'm not sure some of the stuff provided by
> > java-gcj-compat won't fail.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand.  For the stage2 build, were you expecting to
> use java-gcj-compat and a classmap database to get the stage1 built
> compiler?

Yes.

> In that case you could simple compile the stage1 bytecode _after_ you
> build the native code.

:)  Good point.  I will try that.

Does anyone have any comments about my original problem?  That's stopping
me from progressing with this since and it means that I can't build eclipse
right now.

Andrew