icedtea6-1.9.3 Build Problem: NoClassDefFoundError: org.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredDocumentImpl

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 03:02 Thu 09 Dec     , DJ Lucas wrote:
> On 12/08/2010 11:07 PM, DJ Lucas wrote:
> 
> > The solution (as I understand it) is to include xml-apis.jar in endorsed
> > if Xerces is 2.10.0 or greater. I patched locally to include it (if it
> > exists), and build is well into stage 2 now.
> 
> Another thing that just occurred to me, in head, should anything be
> placed in endorsed if building with a previous icedtea6/openjdk, or am I
> misunderstanding the purpose of the endorsed jars?
> 

I think the Xerxes/Xalan replacement is only needed on old versions of gcj/GNU Classpath.
We should look at testing for the bug it works around, and only add Xerxes/Xalan
for these old systems where the JAXP implementation in the bootstrap JDK is
broken.

> -- DJ Lucas
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