Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Yoav Avitzour <avitzour AT princeton.edu>]

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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