Martin, I agree with you...I think I initially tried gcj, but quickly gave up and switched to sun's jdk. I've used jdk 1.5 and 1.6 both, and haven't noticed issues with either one.
Andy On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 17:39 +0100, Martin Ågren wrote: > > I'm on Debian Lenny also, and I haven't had any issues. Although I > > believe I was on T5.0.5 when I installed the quickstart, not 5.0.6. > > > > Andy > > > > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 17:38 +0100, Martin Ågren wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > It surprises me not having heard about this yet, so I might be doing > > > something wrong. > > > > > > Running the maven command as per the tutorial (with/without the > > > archetypeVersion parameter), I get the following error: > > > > > > > [ERROR] BUILD ERROR > > > > [INFO] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > [INFO] Error creating from archetype > > > > > > > > Embedded error: The META-INF/maven/archetype.xml descriptor cannot be > > > > found. > > Thanks for the reply, Andy. I've managed to sort this one out. I > decided to try the JumpStart download, but I couldn't get it running > either (JBoss failed to load some stuff). Google hinted me on this one > however, and by changing from gcj to sun's java 1.5 I could start it. > And sure enough, the quickstart now works just fine. > > All in all, I can report that gcj (on Debian Lenny at least) is a > no-no both for the quickstart and the JumpStart, but that sun's java > 1.5 works just fine with both (haven't tried java 6). > > The command to change ones java environment is > update-java-alternatives and I'm looking forward to finding out which > parts of my system I just broke. :) > > Maybe I should have realized this from documentation somewhere, or > maybe it should be recorded that there are problems with gcj. Even > better, I'd be glad to assist in whatever extent possible if someone > wants to track this down. > > Regards, > > Martin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
