configure: error: "A rhino jar was not found in /usr/share/java as either rhino.jar or js.jar."

[Eric Hameleers]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have problem building IcedTea 2.6.4 on Slackware 14.1 with the gcj 5.3.0 and ecj 4.9:

...

> checking whether to include Javascript support via Rhino... not found
> configure: error: "A rhino jar was not found in /usr/share/java as either rhino.jar or js.jar."

The first question that comes to mind is: did you actually install a 
rhino jar file prior to compiling openjdk with icedtea?

You are also 2 security releases behind with icedtea.

> It seems that some packages/classes are missing in my JDK.
>
> Any idea why?
>
> Thank you.
> Best regards.
>
> That's how I built gcj 5.3.0:
> $ ../configure --prefix=/usr --enable-languages=c,c++,java --enable-java-home
> $ make
>
> That's how I built ecj 4.9:
> $ gcj -o ecj ../ecj.jar --main=org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main


I have tried running "BOOTSTRAP=YES ./openjdk7.SlackBuild" i.e. 
bootstrapping openjdk7 using gcj and using the sources from this 
location: http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/openjdk7/ and 
after having installed apache-ant and rhino.

This is on Slackware 14.2 RC2 which already comes equipped with the 
full GCC 5.3.0 compiler suite.

This resulted in an error-free compilation and a Slackware package for 
openjdk7 7u101_b00.

So yes, probably you ave an incomplete GCC 5.3.0 suite and/or missing 
rhino jar file.

Cheers, Eric

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