GCJ as Java SDK, dead, long live IcedTea!

emerald · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 113

Don't worry, on my Athlon64 X2 4400+ (2x2.2 GHz) the first compilation took somewhere between 6 and 8 hours.
Thanks to ccache and non-bootstrap (compiled using icedtea) consecutive compilations 'only' needed 2..3 hours.

I only wonder what's this *terminating* doing there? O.O
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asroka · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject:

gnu_andrew · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 19

Yes, gcj-jdk is the recommended method to bootstrap as it's the most well-tested. Other Free JDKs like JamVM and CACAO should also work.
In theory, proprietary JDKs may work but you're on your own with that; only the vendors can fix bugs in these.

icedtea6 1.2 is the recommended version of icedtea. I'm going to move the rest to experimental to make this clearer.

rooturner · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 6

Hi, as I would like to go with free software am trying to build icedtea6 with gcj-jdk, can't emerge it so would like to ask:
1. Installed gcc with gcj USE flag and after that revdep-rebuild revealed this:

rooturner · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 6

Ok, made some progress. Was necessery to emerge exact versions - eclipse-ecj-3.3 (not -3.4) (and to eselect ecj set ecj-3.3) and gjdoc-0.7.8 (not 0.7.9) in order to compile gcj-jdk. Then, ant-core exact version 1.7.0-r3 from java-overlay and xerces-2.6.2-r4 from java-overlay. Then one get no circullar deps and could (hopefully) install icedtea6.

emerald · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 113

you'll probably have to remerge the virtual/jdk:1.5 so gcj-jdk will be seen as java jdk by portage. Otherwise it tries to merge a matching jdk, which would be icedtea6

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rooturner · n00b Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 6

emerald: thanks but so far going fine with gcj-jdk

MalleRIM · Guru Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 563 Location: China

rooturner: this is a known problem. you have to fix it by linking manually https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219951

enito · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 79

Hi pals, i try to emerge icedtea and is impossible...see

franky icedtea6 # emerge icedtea6
Calculating dependencies... done!

[nomerge ] dev-java/icedtea6-1.2 USE="-debug -doc -examples -nsplugin -zero"
[ebuild NS ] dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.2.2-r1 [3.4-r2] USE="-doc"
[ebuild U ] virtual/jdk-1.6.0-r1 [1.6.0]
[ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea6-1.2 USE="-debug -doc -examples -nsplugin -zero"

* Error: circular dependencies:

('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.2.2-r1', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'virtual/jdk-1.6.0-r1', 'merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.2', 'merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.2', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.2.2-r1', 'merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'virtual/jdk-1.6.0-r1', 'merge') (hard)
('ebuild', '/', 'virtual/jdk-1.6.0-r1', 'merge') depends on
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.2', 'merge') (medium)

* Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily
* disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.

any tip is really welcomed...thx!

asroka · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject:

enito · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 79

thx man, i do!!

Kollin · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:04 am Post subject:

I can`t emerge gcj:

wolf550e · n00b Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Israel

Kollin · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:14 pm Post subject:

Kollin · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:50 pm Post subject:

dev-java/gjdoc-0.7.9 gives me a headache, nothing suggested in the forums actually works:

wolf550e · n00b Joined: 20 May 2005 Posts: 17 Location: Israel

I could install gjdoc from the overlay, either 0.7.8 or 0.7.9, either with or without the gcj USE flag. I don't remember which combination worked, and I don't remember what else I had to do but I and other people have managed it.

Kollin · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject:

billydv · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject:

I just tried to emerge the icedtea-9999 ebuild but it failed when it got to installing, something about sandbox violations, I also noticed that it was having problems with file access during the compile, possibl; related to ant-core, unfortunately ant-core is not in java-experimental overlay and ant-core in regular java overlay is too old, can this be fixed?
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billydv · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject:

Here is the terminal output

cp openjdk/jdk/src/share/classes/net/sourceforge/jnlp/resources/about.jnlp \
extra-lib/about.jar \
openjdk/build/linux-amd64/j2sdk-image/jre/lib
IcedTea is served: openjdk/build/linux-amd64
mkdir -p stamps
touch stamps/icedtea.stamp
>>> Source compiled.
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-29497.log"

mkdir: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
open_wr: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0/fcinfo56214.tmp
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
open_wr: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0/fcinfo62286.tmp
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
open_wr: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0/fcinfo58948.tmp
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
open_wr: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0/fcinfo41340.tmp
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
open_wr: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0/fcinfo51394.tmp
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
open_wr: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0/fcinfo29166.tmp
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
open_wr: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0/fcinfo63374.tmp
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
mkdir: /root/.java/fonts
open_wr: /root/.java/fonts/1.7.0_0/fcinfo64023.tmp
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Linux1 billydv #
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billydv · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:06 am Post subject:

It emerged with FEATURES="-sandbox" emerge icedtea, this was the live ebuild. ant-core, eclipse-ecj, gcj-jdk all emerged from java overlay. Don't know why it needed -sandbox because it compiles fine but stops at the merge.
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billydv · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 2:04 am Post subject:

I was able to emerge icedtea6-9999 and it works, icedtea-9999 didn't work, applets didn't start. Why is it that anything java that I click on in firefox looks so terrible fontwise? Is there a way to change the fonts?
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billydv · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:44 am Post subject:

Okay, I finally got it to emerge by installing the sun-jdk 1.7 alpha from the java overlay, giving rw permissions on the font folders in the root folder as sandbox had complained about it as you can see from the previous post but even though it emerged, it doesn't start applets. I set it to icedtea on 64bit nsplugins but no luck as a web plugin. On the other hand, icedtea6 seems to work perfectly, starts all applets.
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BrummieJim · l33t Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 683

hi,
I'm trying to emerge icedtea6, but can't at the moment. I've installed the java-overlay, it's sitting in /usr/local/portage/layman, as it's a 1.2 version. When I try to emerge icedtea6 it just gets to calculating dependencies and sits there with the character spinning. I presume something must have happened as I had to unmask ant-core.

Any ideas?

DaggyStyle · Watchman Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5910

I'm trying to rebuild icedtea from the svn, but I get this block