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  • From: Yoav Avitzour <avitzour AT princeton.edu>
  • To: nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>
  • Cc: tedberg AT etherstorm.net, sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]help wanted: linux guru
  • Date: 29 Aug 2002 19:49:52 -0400

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 19:37, nealbirch wrote:
> Ted Berg wrote:
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> >
> > I did a 'sorcery update' on Saturday last, and am finally getting all of
> > the
> > kinks worked out. One major problem remains, however, and I'm stumped.
> >
> > Something about the latest update has broken java. My guess is the new
> > gcc,
> > but that's only a guess, I've got no real clue.
> >
> > Trying to execute java results in the following:
> > ===
> > tedberg@skynet:~/bin$ java
> > 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.
> > tedberg@skynet:~/bin$
> > ===
> >
> > An 'strace java' shows that the last library loaded before the JVM exits
> > is
> > libhpi.so, but it doesn't look like the load results in an error.
> > Frankly,
> > I'm in over my head with the strace output, and am in the market for
> > ideas.
> >
> > I've considered fetching the java sources from Sun and building them
> > myself,
> > but it seems that java is required to bootstrap the build at one point so
> > I
> > have something of a catch 22.
>
> We need a new java spell, maybe?
>
> LFS has a good hint on building it from scratch,
>
> http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/javafromscratch.txt
>
> I haven't tried it because I havent' even got caught up with what I am
> supposed to be doing. Maybe you have the time?
>
> Neal
>

As Ted wrote, you need a working java in order to build java from the
source...
I did it before with gcc3.1 and it worked great (including the mozilla
plugins!!!). However now, since my java is not working (the same error
Ted described), I can't rebuild with 3.2...

Yoav

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