bootstrapping icedtea with gcj 4.3

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Monday 15 October 2007, you wrote:
> Bernhard Rosenkraenzer writes:
>  > I've just tried to bootstrap icedtea (current hg) with gcj 4.3 from SVN
>  > (the first semi-official gcc with generics support).
>
> It can't be done.  The current icedTea needs to be bootstrapped with
> IcedTea.  We're thinking about how to solve this problem, but it's
> hard.

Thanks, that helped -- I got IcedTea 1.3 to compile with gcj 4.3 (just minor 
tweaks required - mostly it's a matter of killing the -Werror flag because 
gcc 4.3 introduces quite a few new warniongs).

Using the resulting JVM to bootstrap current hg icedtea still fails though:


/usr/src/ark/BUILD/icedtea/bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/bin/java -client -Xmx896m -Xms128m -XX:PermSize=32m -XX:MaxPermSize=160m -Xbootclasspath/p:/usr/src/ark/BUILD/icedtea/openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/langtools/dist/bootstrap/lib/javac.jar -jar /usr/src/ark/BUILD/icedtea/openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/langtools/dist/bootstrap/lib/javac.jar -g -source 
1.5 -target 5 -encoding 
ascii -Xbootclasspath:/usr/src/ark/BUILD/icedtea/openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/classes -sourcepath /usr/src/ark/BUILD/icedtea/openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/gensrc:../../../src/solaris/classes:../../../src/share/classes -d /usr/src/ark/BUILD/icedtea/openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/classes 
@/usr/src/ark/BUILD/icedtea/openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/tmp/java/java.lang.management/management/.classes.list
../../../src/share/classes/com/sun/jmx/remote/internal/ProxyInputStream.java:39: 
package org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable does not exist
import org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream;
                                 ^
../../../src/share/classes/com/sun/jmx/remote/internal/ProxyInputStream.java:42: 
package org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable does not exist
public class ProxyInputStream extends org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream {
                                                                ^
../../../src/share/classes/com/sun/jmx/remote/internal/ProxyInputStream.java:215: 
package org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable does not exist
    protected org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream narrow() {
                                        ^
../../../src/share/classes/javax/management/remote/rmi/RMIConnectorServer.java:672: 
cannot access org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.ObjectImpl
class file for org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.ObjectImpl not found
            if (rmiServer instanceof javax.rmi.CORBA.Stub)
                          ^
../../../src/share/classes/javax/management/remote/rmi/RMIConnectorServer.java:730: 
cannot find symbol
symbol  : method _orb()
location: class javax.rmi.CORBA.Stub
            return stub._orb().object_to_string(stub);
                       ^
../../../src/share/classes/javax/management/remote/rmi/RMIConnector.java:1692: 
cannot find symbol
symbol  : method _orb()
location: class javax.rmi.CORBA.Stub
                stub._orb();
                    ^
../../../src/share/classes/javax/management/remote/rmi/RMIConnector.java:2334: 
inconvertible types
found   : java.lang.Object
required: javax.rmi.CORBA.Stub
        Stub proxyStub = (Stub) proxyStubClass.newInstance();
                                                          ^
../../../src/share/classes/javax/management/remote/rmi/RMIConnector.java:2335: 
cannot find symbol
symbol  : method _get_delegate()
location: class javax.rmi.CORBA.Stub
        proxyStub._set_delegate(stub._get_delegate());
                                    ^
../../../src/share/classes/com/sun/jmx/remote/internal/ProxyInputStream.java:216: 
package org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable does not exist
        if (in instanceof org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream)
                                                    ^
../../../src/share/classes/com/sun/jmx/remote/internal/ProxyInputStream.java:217: 
package org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable does not exist
            return (org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream) in;
                                              ^
Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
10 errors
make[4]: *** [.compile.classlist] Error 1


Any ideas? Do I need to install an external corba package that isn't listed in 
the INSTALL file?

Thanks,
bero