Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

["Jose Bernardo Silva" <jbs AT bandos.homelinux.com>]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:57:21 +1000, Hamish Greig wrote
[...]
> FYI the j2sdk spell mostly became needed not because there was any 
> speed, stability or size advantage to be gained by compiling java 
> ourselves but because the existing j2re and 2sdk provided by SUN,
>  IBM and Blackdown were built by gcc 2.95.3 and were incompatible 
> with our gcc 3.X.X compiled systems. In short, to be able to use 
> java plugins in a gcc3.X.X compiled mozilla or konqueror we needed 
> to build the plugin with the same compiler.

Exactly - and the openoffice spell come into being because the 1.0.1 binary
would not work properly on Athlon CPUs.

> Jose/ Geoffrey will you have time to update the spell to use the 
> currently available binary package or at least change the URL to an 
> available mirror ? OR should I just go ahead and change that for you ?
 
Hamish,

Please, go ahead. I won't be able to do much before sunday, so, if you have
the time, go ahead and change the spell.

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