[fedora-java] compatible provides?

[Andrew Haley]

Benjamin Reed wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Benjamin Reed wrote:
>>> Would it be possible to add compatible provides to the openjdk -devel
>>> package?  Since OpenNMS uses Tomcat and/or Jetty, and does not
>>> precompile it's JSP files, we require a JDK at runtime.
>>
>> Does OpenNMS really not work at all with gcj?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> I haven't tried for a while, but last I did, it blew up.  OpenNMS is a
> rather large app, and exercises garbage collection in interesting and
> destructive ways.  ;)
> 
> It's been a while since we've tried, I can give it another shot and open
> bugs...

That's not absolutely necessary, as long as you've tried with a reasonably
recent gcj.  The phrase "since OpenNMS uses Tomcat and/or Jetty" was a red
flag, since we've used gcj with both of these.

Andrew.