[csw-maintainers] Problems with GCC Java compiler

[Laurent Blume]

On 07/10/2013 15:01, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I am again fiddling with gcc flavors and noticed a problem with gcj (not that it ever
> worked on our release):
> 
> 1. libiconv is needed, but no longer linked in
> 
> Although I didn't tinker with this the issue may be resolved easily.
>   http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/changeset?new=22091%40csw%2Fmgar%2Fpkg%2Fgcc4%2Ftrunk%2FMakefile&old=20525%40csw%2Fmgar%2Fpkg%2Fgcc4%2Ftrunk%2FMakefile
> 
>> dam at unstable10s [unstable10s]:/home/dam/mgar/pkg/pdftk/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/pdftk-1.45-dist/java > /opt/csw/bin/gcj-4.8 -Wall -Wextra -fsource=1.3 -O2 --encoding=UTF-8 --classpath="/usr/share/java/libgcj-4.8.jar:/home/dam/mgar/pkg/pdftk/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/pdftk-1.45-dist/java:." -C com/lowagie/text/ElementTags.java
>> ld.so.1: gij-4.8: fatal: relocation error: file /opt/csw/lib/sparcv8/libgcj.so.14: symbol libiconv_open: referenced symbol not found
>> Killed
>> zsh: 12672 exit 1     /opt/csw/bin/gcj-4.8 -Wall -Wextra -fsource=1.3 -O2 --encoding=UTF-8  -C 
> 
> 2. Some obscure compilation error, I will take any advice here:
> 
>> dam at unstable10s [unstable10s]:/home/dam/mgar/pkg/pdftk/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/pdftk-1.45-dist/java > LD_PRELOAD=/opt/csw/lib/libiconv.so /opt/csw/bin/gcj-4.8 -Wall -Wextra -fsource=1.3 -O2 --encoding=UTF-8 --classpath="/usr/share/java/libgcj-4.8.jar:/home/dam/mgar/pkg/pdftk/trunk/work/solaris10-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8plus/pdftk-1.45-dist/java:." -C com/lowagie/text/ElementTags.java  
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.GCCMain
>>    at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libgcj.so.14.0.0)
>> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.GCCMain not found in gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:/opt/csw/share/java/ecj.jar], parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.ExtensionClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}}
>>    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.14.0.0)
>>    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.14.0.0)
>>    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.14.0.0)
>>    at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libgcj.so.14.0.0)
>> zsh: 12684 exit 1     LD_PRELOAD=/opt/csw/lib/libiconv.so /opt/csw/bin/gcj-4.8 -Wall -Wextra  -O2  
> 

Sorry, I find this weird just as well.

I only want to pile a little more on your plate by pointing out there
are a couple of old packages in the catalog that seem wrong:

gcc4javart     CSWgcc4javart     4.3.3,REV=2009.05.07        51.5 MB
gcc4objcrt     CSWgcc4objcrt     4.3.3,REV=2009.05.07       522.8 KB

Laurent