I just can't find GCJ on my FreeBSD 6 box

Micah micahjon at ywave.com
Fri Dec 30 21:11:37 PST 2005


Jon Brisbin wrote:
> I installed GCC 4.1 twice, thinking I just missed it. I can't find any
> of the gcj tools on my BSD 6 box. I made extra double sure that Java was
> compiled into GCC, but the gcj tools are nowhere to be found.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong? I'm trying to follow the instructions here:
> 
> http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathShowcase#head-7d9a556e8485fc84fd5ce0e52be6104d85e24316
> 
> I have this in 4.1 on my PowerBook, but I can't find the darn thing on
> BSD. Where is it? How can I use gcj on BSD? Can I?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jon Brisbin
> Webmaster
> NPC International, Inc.
> 

 From Makefile:
# FIXME: As of 20051202, installing libgcj nearly kills 1GB machines.
WITHOUT_JAVA=   yes

In other words java has been disabled until they fix it.  You can try 
commenting the line out, but I'm not sure I'd want to "nearly kill" my 
machine.

HTH,
Micah


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