[fedora-java] Re: [OX Devel] Compiling OpenExchange with gcj and classpath

[Michael Koch]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:05:18AM +0200, Martin Kauss wrote:
> On Jul 08, 2005 02:28 PM, Soumyadip Modak <soumyadip at randomink.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > Recently I've been looking at OpenExchange on Fedora Core 4. I was 
> > hoping to utilise FC4's extensive free Java tools to build OX. OX 
> > configure script didn't thorw up any problems but make failed witha lot 
> > of errors. Can anyone please guide me how to rectify these problems to 
> > get a completely free groupware solution ?
> > 
> > Errors :
> > 
> > Making all in javabuild
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/root/open-xchange-0.8.0-3/javabuild'
> > /usr/bin/ant -f ../build.xml
> > Buildfile: ../build.xml
> > 
> > init:
> > 
> > compilewebdav:
> >     [javac] Compiling 14 source files to /root/open-xchange-0.8.0-3/build
> >     [javac] ----------
> >     [javac] 1. WARNING in 
> > /root/open-xchange-0.8.0-3/src/com/openexchange/groupware/ContactInsEdit.java
> >     [javac]  (at line 96)
> >     [javac]     import com.openexchange.tools.encoding.Base64;
> >     [javac]            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >     [javac] The import com.openexchange.tools.encoding.Base64 is never used
> >     [javac] ----------
> >     [javac] ----------
> 
> 
> [REMOVED LOTS OF ERROR MESSAGES]
>  
> 
> >     [javac]  (at line 53)
> >     [javac]     public class OXFolderPermissionException extends Throwable {
> >     [javac]                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >     [javac] The serializable class OXFolderPermissionException does not 
> > declare a static final serialVersionUID field of type long
> >     [javac] ----------
> >     [javac] 120 problems (84 errors, 36 warnings)
> > 
> > Sorry for flooding.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Soumyadip Modak 
> > soumyadip at randomink.org
> > soumyadip.modak at gmail.com
> > http://www.randomink.org/soumyadip
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the configure just checks the system dependencies to
> build the system. The needed libraries are not checked
> until the compile process, JFYI.
> 
> The questions was asked some month ago for a Debian
> package as well. I tried to build Open-Xchange some
> time ago with GNU Classpath, but specially for mail,
> necessary methods and functions are just missing.
> 
> We are just providing a collaboration framework and
> that is our focus. This means, if the functionality
> is covered by any other package than Sun's Javamail
> package one can build OX with this packages.
> 
> Currently - AFAIK - this is not possible.
> 
> The other question is what you mean with
> "extensive free Java tools" ... for some
> ppl. also packages offered by Sun/IBM/Bea are "free" ...

You mean "free" as in "free beer" but we would like to use software
that is "free" as in "freedom".


Michael
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