Re: libgcj


Subject: Re: libgcj
From: Kevin B. Hendricks (khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca)
Date: Sun Mar 11 2001 - 06:05:06 MST


Hi Dan,

FYI

libgcj.so does work for ppc in the pre gcc-3.0 release and I have also
recently submitted the "closures" code to make gij (the gnu gcc java
interpreter work) on ppc also.

I can send you the patches if you need or want them.

Take care,

Kevin

On Friday 09 March 2001 13:03, Dan Burcaw wrote:
> libgcj doesn't exist on PPC. I believe you're trying to install
kernel-utils?
> If that is indeed the case, the dependency on libgcj has been removed
> in your 2.0 RPMs. It was a mistake, no conspiracy :)
>
> >Greetings:
> >Would anyone know where I would find libgcj? It doesn't seem to be on
> >the YDL CDs.
> >Anyone have an idea where to find it?
> >
> >Also I tracked down links from the YDL site regarding compiling,
> >upgrading, etc. linux
> >and found out that its really pc specific. It doesn't consider the
> >existence of yup or that yup has installed many, if not all the things
> >one is instructed to look for,
> >what it doesn't include is so glaring that I'm questioning why YDL uses
> >it as a link.
>
> What link you are talking about?
>
>
> >Indeed, following it really messed up my system to the point that I had
> >to reinstall linux from the YDL CD's.
> >
> >It would have been simpler, for me, and less time consuming, again for
> >me, to go to the YDL find a paragraph or two of instructions as opposed
> >to several pages of details which are extraneous to my intended task.
> >
> >Maybe its my suspicious nature, but I wonder if TerraSoft Sol. provided
> >that link by Sarup just to show it's clients what it is saving it's
> >clients from?
> >
> >I'll check back for a response. Thanks ahead of time, for any direction
> >I can get on these or related points.
>
> Regards,
> Dan
>
> Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/
>



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