IcedTea6 and openjdk-6-src-b06-28_feb_2008

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 27/03/2008, Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Regardless of which version of GCJ is in use, none of them include
> > that constructor as it's not yet in Classpath:
> >
> > # constructor java.lang.String(byte[], int, int,
> > java.nio.charset.Charset): missing in classpath
> > # constructor java.lang.String(byte[], java.nio.charset.Charset):
> > missing in classpath
> >
> > taken from
> http://builder.classpath.org/japi/openjdk-classpath.html
> >
> > I don't get how you reach this problem and no-one else does.  It's
> > very odd.  Can you explain exactly how you download, configure and
> > build IcedTea6?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Andrew :-)
>
> I have been trying to figure out why this works on Fedora 8 but not on OS X.
>  I have a clean install of Fedora 8, with the  yum updates (the alsa fails
> by the way).
>
> I have removed all the libgcj*.jar  and rt.jar files that I can find.
> Icedtea6 still compiles the java classes.  This makes no sense to me, if I
> have removed all of the classes used by java, how is it still able to
> compile?  What library/jar has the java classes?
>
> Michael

See what configure detects? :)

On Mac OS X, I don't see why you are pointing at Apple's VM if you've
gone to the extent of compiling gcj.  Just use that.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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