[fedora-java] latest gcj (gcc4) and OOo 1.9.84 news

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 14:13 +0000, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>I did another round of testing to see what additionally works or doesn't
>in OOo2 with gcj from gcc4, and its big progress, which is most
>excellent. I've enabled the new stuff which is working in OOo workspace
>gcj3. There are a handful of remaining problems, various temporary
>workaround patches and testcases where applicable at
>http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/java/
>
>1. ooo patched rhino fails to build with gcj
>
>tar xvzf rhino15R4.tar.gz
>cd rhino1_5R4/
>patch -p3 < ../rhino1_5R4.patch
>ant -Dbuild.compiler=gcj -f build.xml
>
>ERROR in
>rhino1_5R4/toolsrc/org/mozilla/javascript/tools/debugger/Main.java (at
>line 449)
>[javac]     int pos = viewToModel(new Point(popup.x, popup.y));
>
>the scripting module also depends on this rhino module
>submitted as rh#150772#. I bet this is trivial to fix.
>

OK, I'll look at this.

>2. complicated problem I don't understand in wizards component
>registration :-(
>        submitted as rh#150650#
>        temp ooo side wizards.workaround.patch to get past registration
>
>3. canvas module fails to compile
>        a missing "java.awt.Frame.createBufferStrategy" implementation ?
>

Can you file a bug for this in RH bugzilla and assign it to me?  I'll
work on it.

>4. gcj's libjawt contains a reference to undefined
>LINK_ReallyLinkKnownClass
>        Thomas Fitzsimmons is taking care of it.
>        temp ooo side libjawt.workaround.patch to not checkdll bean for
>gcj, this is a relatively trivial thing as well.
>

I'll fix this on GCC HEAD today.

>---- unimportant stuff ----
>
>5. sandbox uses sun.applet.AppletAudioClip and other sun.foo classes,
>not important, its really a deprecated module
>

I'll see if Tritonus implements this class.  If so, I'll package it.  I
know this is less important but we need Tritonus anyway.

Tom