Work in progress - Archlinux OpenOffice 2.0 against GCJ

Fri Nov 10 11:36:00 GMT 2006

Chris Stromblad wrote:
> 1. Has any effort been put into porting Apache-ant to compile
> against GCJ? As OOo depends on ant, which in turn depends on
> Sun JDK/JRE, OOo would indirectly no longer be "free".

Fedora has shipped with a gcj-compiled OO.o for a year or so now.
You could look in there to see how it was done.
> 2. Another problem when attempting to use the java-gcj-compat
> package wrapper scripts, below is the output from running javac
> with no arguments:
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
> org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main not found

This is because java-gcj-compat uses the Eclipse Java compiler
for it's javac command, and you presumably don't have that
installed.
Cheers,
Gary