On 2 June 2010 09:13, David Karlsen <dav...@delonic.no> wrote: > Caldarale, Charles R Wrote: > > >> parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader > >You need to use a real JVM (HotSpot, JRockit, IBM), not a toy one. > Remove gcj from your system as quickly as possible. > > It seems like jpackage.org packages is having dependency towards gcj. Do > you know perhaps about another repertory that contains prebuilt packages > for Centos 5? > > It seems strange dough, that jpackage.org should build packages that is > designed not to work on the system the packages is build for. Are you > certain that it isn't any more convenience way to do this than changing > the JVM? > > If you read jpackage.org's mission, it is to use FOSS packages wherever possible. Unfortunately, this means that they prefer GCJ (a toy, as Chuck says) over software that is available for $0 but not free-as-in-speech. This is an ideological choice, not a technical one.
And, no, there's no more convenient way to fix this than to change the JVM to a real one. You don't have to use the Sun JVM; it looks like jpackage has details for both the BEA and IBM ones. - Peter
