IcedTea on openSUSE 10.3

[Mark Wielaard]

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 18:20 -0500, Christian Bourque wrote:
> Ok after upgrading libgcj to 4.3.0 (20080124) I was able to go a
> little bit further but still got a compilation error:
> 
> 1. ERROR in hotspot-tools/sun/jvmstat/perfdata/monitor/PerfStringMonitor.java
> (at line 103)
>         return new String(b, 0, i, defaultCharset);
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> The constructor String(byte[], int, int, Charset) is undefined

hmmm. That is a String constructor from 1.6 not supported by gcj or
classpath. I wonder why that code doesn't just use String(byte[] data,
int offset, int count) which also uses the default Charset (and a quick
inspection seems to confirm that defaultCharset has a static final value
being the platform default.

But that isn't the problem here (although you could try just removing
that last argument as a quick workaround). The problem is that at this
point the build should be using the openjdk javac and class libraries to
compile this file. I don't know why it isn't. Apparently it is my my
systems (Fedora/Debian) since I didn't encounter this problem.

Cheers,

Mark