Re: gcj and Openoffice.org 1.9.X

[Anthony Green <green redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 02:35, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> I've some patches at http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/gcj/ to start off
> building OOo 1.9.61 with gcj/gij as java replacement. 

Nice!

> The crucial thing is to get the module xmlhelp built with gcj so that
> building in helpcontent2 which uses xmlhelp will produce the help files.
> In xmlhelp "extends sun.net.www.protocol.file.Handler" is a problem,
> hacking around it currently leads to a crash in helpcontent2.

This is application badness.  Ideally they wouldn't be using this class
directly.  If rewriting this code isn't an option, have a look at
gnu.gcj.protocol.file.Handler to see if it will do the job.

> Minor issues are building the modified rhino module, and some odds and
> ends in the wizards and qadev modules

Check out rhug for autotooled gcj enabled rhino.  There's even an RPM
spec file.  http://sources.redhat.com/rhug

Just FYI, however, I expect rhug will go away when we all start using
GCC 4, since building and running java apps/libraries with GCC 4 will be
much easier.

AG

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