java-devel July 2006

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FC6 gcj notes
by Anthony Green 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

A few random FC6 gcj comments... I'm not sure if this has been mentioned on the list at all, but since FC6 will be shipping with GCC 4.1.x, a decision has been made to backport all the great GNU Classpath/libgcj work from GCC HEAD into the FC6 4.1.x branch. Among other things, this means we'll also get gcjwebplugin. The whitelist dialog box in gcjwebplugin is pretty intimidating. I was wondering if we could add a button to it that would pop up a Fedora wiki page in a browser explaining the situation a little better to newbies. I'd be willing to write the page if somebody could add the button. FE now contains all of the dependencies for the MIDI synthesizer providers I wrote (dssi, jack-audio-connection-kit, etc). I'm not willing to bet we can pull these into Core. Should I extract those providers from GNU Classpath and make an FE package out of them? Having Eclipse 3.2 in FC6 is awesome. I am able to remove a number of SWT patches from azureus and rssowl now that we have SWT 3.2. However... I can't optimize Azureus because of this: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19505 RSSOwl won't run because of this: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27271 Are there any other pet bugs that need to be fixed before FC6? Karsten hasn't been asking me about FOP for a long time. I wonder if that means the Fedora docs guys have moved on to a different PDF solution. I suspect that FOP will run with the FC6 gcj. Any reason to believe otherwise? AG

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decoupling libgcj from gcc.src.rpm
by Anthony Green 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

FC5 has been kind of frustrating from a libgcj perspective. We've had to wait extra-long for new gcc RPMS in order to get critical libgcj fixes out (for instance 4 or 5 weeks to get gc deadlock update out). I know people have talked about separating libgcj from gcc in the past. I don't know those conversations ever ended, but it would be really nice if we could do something for FC6. I think the simplest approach would be for jakub to continue building gcc RPMS as is (including building libgcj and running gcj testsuite), but then delete libgcj after install and don't build the libgcj sub-packages. The gcc/libjava directory would still be part of the gcc SRPM and would get tested as before. Then we could simply maintain a separate SRPM for libgcj, and not be shackled to the gcc update schedule. The SRPM would only have to contain the appropriate target directories, and we could incorporate mauve testing into the release process. I think this will be particularly important if we manage to get something like gcjwebplugin with the new whitelist feature into FC6. We may want to push out GUI and security updates on a much more frequent basis than is reasonable for gcc. Comments? AG

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Dependence bug in all optional task provided by ant.spec file.
by alcapcom 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Hello, I found this bug by compiling a java application with mock. Simple example: yum install ant ant-apache-regexp The regexp task is not found by ant, to make it woking, ant-nodeps package must be installed manually. I put the question here before opening a new bug with a patch for the ant.spec file on bugzilla, in order to know if it is a known bug? Cheers

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Patch for azureus timeout problem
by Anthony Green 09 Jul '06

09 Jul '06

Hi Tom, Could you please apply the attached patch to FC5's java-1.4.2-gcj-compat? It fixes a timeout problem in azureus. This fix is already in bouncycastle 1.33 which you've packaged for FC6. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187103 for a little more info. The java-1.4.2-gcj-compat spec file is a little funky. I just applied it with.. patch -p0 < %{PATCH0} ..in the %build section. Thanks, AG

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jedit install on fc3, fc4 or fc5
by ed anderson 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Can Jedit be installed using jpackage on either os fc3, fc4 or fc5? Thanks Ed Anderson dander(a)bestweb.net

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gcjwebplugin-test package
by Anthony Green 03 Jul '06

03 Jul '06

Thanks to langel and fitzsim's help, I've created a gcjwebplugin-test package for x86 FC5. It's built from GNU Classpath and jamvm cvs HEAD sources. The source RPM just contains a script for checking out the sources and building them. The binary RPM includes all the sources (installed under /usr/share/gcjwebplugin-test). To try it out, simple create a file called /etc/yum.repos.d/gcjwebplugin-test.repo with the following contents: [gcjwebplugin-test] name=Experimental gcjwebplugin repository baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/green/gcjwebplugin-test/fedora/$releasever… enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 Then "yum install gcjwebplugin-test". I don't know what this will do if you have Sun's plugin installed as well (I don't). Also, this version of the plugin includes Lillian's whitelist trick, so it will only load applets you specifically say are "OK". Please report any applet bugs to the GNU Classpath bugzilla repository.. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla. Thanks, AG

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