[MKSearch-dev] Compiling on linux (was:Week 2 round up)

[Chris Croome]

Hi

(taking this back onto the list)

On Fri 22-Oct-2004 at 03:39:56PM +0100, Bruno Postle wrote:
> On Fri 22-Oct-2004 at 15:17 +0100, Phil Shaw wrote:
> > 
> > Okay good, hopefully that was quite simple. Do you think it would be 
> > worth documenting some typical gcc installation procedures?
> 
> On Fedora it is as easy as typing 'apt-get install gcc-java', this
> downloaded and installed the package and some dependencies (libgcj
> and libgcj-devel).
> 
> Sun Java libraries will not be so straightforward as sun doesn't
> allow repackaging.

Yes, it's a bit time consuming but it's not so bad, this is the
place to go for a RPM based distro:

  http://www.jpackage.org/

Chris

> > I wonder if there's a crafty way of locating the GNU version and no 
> > other and substituting its path? I suppose this may need to be 
> > another explicit environment setting.
> 
> Is this a problem because you have two copies of jar on your system?
> 
> Perhaps you just use 'jar' without the directory and modify your
> PATH environment to ignore the non-gnu version?
> 
> The crafty way of doing it is to use automake and autoconf, but this
> would be a huge distraction as it is enormously complicated.

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