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From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: mohan NMH <mohan.nmh2@gmail.com>
Cc: java@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: gcj can not import packages
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9335b6e8-ed7f-1e8d-4022-656da4681770@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANV4OqgvpxXFP9VSRFNVtbkTcR5PgAZNHVWaHF7VsoSu+k7_0w@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/11/16 12:49, mohan NMH wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 09/11/16 11:29, mohan NMH wrote:
>>> Can someone help me to understand why gcj can not import packages
>>> while javac can? Any CLASSPATH setting required?
>>
>> java.util.Objects is Java 1.7.  gcj is at the level of 1.4 - 1.5.
> 
> Thanks Andrew. Could you please let me know what makes gcj at level of
> 1.4 - 1.5? Is it /usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar?

It's the GCJ runtime library.

> Before this installation I tried with
> --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/ecj4.4.jar. But the gcj failed to load
> org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.GCCMain.class. The ecj4.4.jar
> contains org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main.class while
> eclipse-ecj.jar contains
> org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.GCCMain.class. Therefore I
> chose eclipse-ecj.jar
> 
> Please advise how to upgrade gcj to Java 1.8

It'd take a few programmer-years of work, I suspect.  Maybe one
programmer could do it in a year, but that programmer would have to be
very expert.

GCJ is obsolete and its sources have been deleted from GCC.

Andrew.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-09 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CANV4OqjehvrZUaMGbwn0Gu3KsesTy7aWVhY9cPETpnqwf_Zo0A@mail.gmail.com>
2016-11-09 11:29 ` mohan NMH
2016-11-09 12:26   ` Andrew Haley
2016-11-09 12:49     ` mohan NMH
2016-11-09 13:29       ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2017-01-16 17:41         ` Bill Chatfield via java
2017-01-16 20:10           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-16 22:58             ` Bill Chatfield via java
2017-01-16 23:24               ` Anthony Green
2017-01-17  9:56               ` Andrew Haley
2017-01-18 20:29                 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-18 20:40                   ` Matthias Klose
2017-01-18 20:59                     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-19  9:59                       ` Andrew Haley
     [not found]                         ` <CAFXTvn525N1D_EOuCAWXSJugCpZCZCkc5GfuhNJ1nPoDK0DAoQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-05-17 20:26                           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-01-17  9:58           ` Andrew Haley
2017-01-17 15:21             ` Bill Chatfield via java

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