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[Eric Richardson]

Michael,

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Andrew John Hughes <
> gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> <snip>
>
>>
>> IcedTea[7] (http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea) already has a
>> --with-project=bsd option for supporting using the BSD tree in place
>> of the main JDK7 tree.  It just needs testing.  I think supporting the
>> use of BSD as an alternate icedTea build is the better solution long
>> term.  All it really needs is someone will to try building on Mac
>> OS/BSD and to maintain it long-term by supplying us with patches.
>> No-one currently on the IcedTea team uses BSD or Mac OS X (AFAIK) but
>> we're certainly open to more contributors and to supporting more
>> platforms.  I'd much prefer this to forking zero support.  There are
>> also other features such as the web plugin, web start support, etc. in
>> IcedTea that may be useful for BSD and Mac OS X users.
>>
>
> I made a quick attempt at building icedtea7 on OS X.  The autogen.sh fails
> with the following:
> onfigure.ac:4: installing `./config.guess'
> configure.ac:4: installing `./config.sub'
> configure.ac:2: installing `./install-sh'
> Makefile.am:1304: variable `PULSEAUDIO_SOURCES' is defined but no program
> or
> Makefile.am:1304: library has `PULSEAUDIO' as canonic name (possible typo)
> Makefile.am:1227: variable `JTREG_SOURCES' is defined but no program or
> Makefile.am:1227: library has `JTREG' as canonic name (possible typo)
>
> Also, I was not able to find IcedTea7 specific instructions.  Are there
> any?
>
> Michael
> <snip>
>

I got this same error but tried configure anyway

./configure --with-openjdk-home=/Library/Java/Home --enable-zero=yes
--with-project=bsd --with-ecj-jar=/opt/local/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar
--with-alt-jar=/System/LibrarFrameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Classes/classes.jar

checking for libgcj-4.3.*.jar...
configure: error: "A LIBGCJ jar was not found."

I thought maybe I could clear this problem by trying to compile gcj34(from
MacPorts) using gcc42? The gcc 4.0.1 wouldn't do it and I saw a post
on  http://trac.macports.org/ticket/9730 that said

wontfix the gcj34 port because pdftk compiles just fine on Intel and PowerPC
Macs using gcc42, which has been the default for pdftk since
r25014<http://trac.macports.org/changeset/25014>.


Would this help me out for Icetea7 or some other path or is this a dead end?

What tools (gcc, gcj etc) and versions would be good to start with?

Eric


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