[fedora-java] Fedora java packaging, icedtea vs gcj

Sander Hoentjen sander at hoentjen.eu
Sun Nov 25 19:24:36 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 16:55 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Sander Hoentjen writes:
>  > 
>  > There is a program i would like to package (josm), only it doesn't
>  > compile with gcj, but it does with icedtea. Can this go into fedora?
> 
> It would be better to avoid that.  Why won't it compile with gcj?

The method getMousePosition() is undefined for the type Component
So.. how much better is it to avoid it? Do I have to patch the whole
program to not use that function (I don't know if I can do it), or
should I just go for icedtea?

Sander





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