Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

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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