Building on BLAG/FC 6

Francis Kung fkung at redhat.com
Mon Jun 25 07:11:00 PDT 2007


Hi,

>> I'm trying to build on BLAG 60000, which is based on Fedora Core 6.  It
>> can't find libgcj-4.1.2.jar , since FC6 seems to have libgcj-4.1.1.jar .
>>  If I override this, do you think the rest of the build will work?
> 
> No, you will need something based of the gcj in Fedora 7 or later (the
> gcj in Fedora 7 is actually 4.1.2 plus a backport of the new 1.5 and ecj
> work.

Alternately, you can follow the instructions at 
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/GentooBuildInstructions to build a 
newer version of gcj without upgrading to a F7-based distro (of course, 
doing the Fedora/BLAG equivalents of the Gentoo commands provided).

Cheers,
Francis



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