Bug#350542: ecj-bootstrap fails if java-gcj-compat is not installed

Tom Tromey tromey at redhat.com
Thu Feb 9 18:35:22 UTC 2006


>>>>> "Matthias" == Matthias Klose <doko at cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

Matthias> explicitely adding -bootclasspath
Matthias> /usr/share/java/libgcj-4.0.jar works around that failure. Is
Matthias> this the right thing to do, or is the real problem that ecj
Matthias> derives the bootclasspath implicitely from the runtime used
Matthias> to run ecj?

My reading of the ecj code is that it uses java.home to find rt.jar.

I would suggest either compiling a default into ecj, or always
requiring java-gcj-compat.  For Fedora we do the latter.

Tom




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