Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Yoav Avitzour <avitzour AT princeton.edu>]

I can only speak from my own experience. I *WAS* able to run jdk1.4.0
under gcc 3.1 and the evidence is that I *WAS* able to then compile
jdk1.4.0 under gcc3.1 (again - you can't compile it unless you already
have it running...). I am  unable to do the same since the transition to
gcc 3.2. Either there is a specific problem with gcc3.2, or something
was changed in our library/linking configuration in the transition
gcc3.1->gcc3.2. The general problem, as far as I understand it, is only
with the plugins, which you cannot run from a gcc3.x compiled browser,
but not with the whole jdk. Again - we are able to run jdk1.3.1 that was
compiled with gcc2.95.

Yoav

On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 16:37, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>  From all the posts I saw on sun's site their jdk (and jre) was not 
> working with gcc 3.x and up. there was a workaround by copying old files 
> or something but that's not a good solution. pretty much a recompile of 
> their jdk would fix it but they haven't done that yet. That is my 
> understanding of the issue.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> Yoav Avitzour wrote:
> 
> >As far as I understand, in principle there shouldn't be any problem to
> >run java that is compiled with older gcc, the same way we are still
> >compiling some of the spells with gcc2, and running them, and the same
> >way we are able to run jdk1.3.1 which is also compiled with gcc2.95. I
> >was able to run jdk 1.4.0 with gcc3.1 at the time, and then was able to
> >compile jdk1.4.0 with gcc 3.1 to get the plugins to work (you need a
> >working version of jdk1.4.0 in order to compile jdk1.4.0...) but
> >something got screwed up in the transition to gcc3.2. I struggled with
> >it for a while and gave up, but I find it hard to believe that if it
> >worked in a system fully compiled with gcc3.1, it cannot work in a
> >system compiled with gcc3.2.
> >
> >Yoav
> >
> >On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 13:52, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>This is because they compile java with gcc 2.95.3. It does not work with 
> >>gcc 3.x.  If you register with the java site you can search for the bug 
> >>and then vote for it to be fixed.  Sun is aware of the problem, but no 
> >>one is sure when they are going to fix it.  You can download the source 
> >>for the jdk and try to compile it but i did not have any luck with that. 
> >> In the mean time you can use blackdown's version, you won't get 1.4.1, 
> >>but 1.3.1 is pretty good.  The plugins will not work but you'll have 
> >>java support.
> >>
> >>Jeremy
> >>
> >>Craig Dyke wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Have recently created a spell for my self based on the j2sdk spell.
> >>>
> >>>Difference being the version of mine is 1.4.1
> >>>Problem I am having is that none of the java executables work.
> >>>
> >>>eg.
> >>>
> >>>grail@Coven:~$ java -version
> >>>There was an error trying to initialize the HPI library.
> >>>Please check your installation, HotSpot does not work correctly
> >>>when installed in the JDK 1.2 Linux Production Release, or
> >>>with any JDK 1.1.x release.
> >>>Could not create the Java virtual machine.
> >>>
> >>>This prompted me to check integrity of spell which gave me the following 
> >>>info:
> >>>
> >>>root@Coven:/home/grail# cast -n java
> >>>Initiating integrity check, please wait...
> >>>Checking integrity of java                        \
> >>>/usr/lib/j2sdk1.4.1/jre/lib/i386/libJdbcOdbc.so of java is broke.
> >>>       libodbcinst.so => not found
> >>>       libodbc.so => not found
> >>>/usr/lib/j2sdk1.4.1/jre/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so of java is 
> >>>broke.
> >>>       libxpcom.so => not found
> >>>/usr/lib/j2sdk1.4.1/old.libraries/javaplugin_oji.so of java is broke.
> >>>       libxpcom.so => not found
> >>>/usr/lib/j2sdk1.4.1/old.libraries/libJdbcOdbc.so of java is broke.
> >>>       libodbcinst.so => not found
> >>>       libodbc.so => not found
> >>>
> >>>Can anyone explain to me how to get or build these missing files as
> >>>they do not appear antwhere on my system??
> >>>
> >>>Craig
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