IcedTea6 - Mercurial Fails on Fedora 8 64bit

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 09/04/2008, Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I followed the instructions in the Icedtea6 release announcement and get the
> following error on Fedora 8 64 bit.
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ljvm
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[5]: ***
> [/home/mfranz/development/icedtea6-1.1-unpatched/openjdk-ecj/control/build/linux-amd64/corba/lib/amd64/libioser12.so]
> Error 1
>  make[5]: Leaving directory
> `/home/mfranz/development/icedtea6-1.1-unpatched/openjdk-ecj/corba/make/sun/corba/core'
> make[4]: *** [build] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/home/mfranz/development/icedtea6-1.1-unpatched/openjdk-ecj/corba/make/sun/corba'
>  make[3]: *** [build] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/mfranz/development/icedtea6-1.1-unpatched/openjdk-ecj/corba/make/sun'
> make[2]: *** [build] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/mfranz/development/icedtea6-1.1-unpatched/openjdk-ecj/corba/make'
>  make[1]: *** [corba-build] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/mfranz/development/icedtea6-1.1-unpatched/openjdk-ecj/control/make'
> make: *** [stamps/icedtea-ecj.stamp] Error 2
>
>
> This is on a clean install with updates and the yum command:
>  yum install /usr/bin/ecj mercurial cups-devel lesstif-devel libXp-devel
> libXtst-devel libXi-devel xalan-j2 xerces-j2 \
> libXt-devel libgcj freetype-devel gcc gcc-c++ wget java-1.5.0-gcj-devel
> firefox-devel glib2-devel gtk2-devel \
>
> ant libXinerama-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel giflib-devel zlib-devel
>
> You will notice that alsa-lib-devel is missing since it will not install
> correctly.
>
> Michael
>

Check bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib has a symlink to a subdirectory of
/usr/lib/jvm.  It should be pointing to libjvm from gcj.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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