IcedTea with gcc 4.3 and Minimum JDK version

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 21/03/2008, Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Earlier versions of the same codebase have been used to compile
> > OpenJDK so it seems odd that you'd run into a problem here.  Can you
> > include the line that leads to that error? Which javac does it use?
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> > --
> > Andrew :-)
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> Is this what you are asking for?
> /usr/bin/java -jar /opt/local/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar -bootclasspath
> :/opt/local/share/java/libgcj-4.3.0.jar:/opt/local/share/java/libgcj-tools-4.3.0.jar::
>  -nowarn -g -d lib/hotspot-tools -source 1.6 -sourcepath
> rt:hotspot-tools:openjdk/jdk/src/share/classes:openjdk/jdk/src/solaris/classes:openjdk/langtools/src/share/classes:openjdk/jaxp/src/share/classes:openjdk/corba/src/share/classes:openjdk/jaxws/src/share/classes:generated
> @hotspot-tools-source-files.txt
>  ----------
> 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
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Yes.  What does /usr/bin/java -version give? I'd suggest using gij as
the java (which is what IcedTea should do by default) rather than
mixing the Sun/Apple JDK up with GCJ class libraries.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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