Re: Which way to go finally ? -- Re: Why FC4 using the Jpackage 1.4.2 Java?

From: Alexander Dalloz (ad+lists_at_uni-x.org)
Date: 06/27/05

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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 22:21:00 +0200

    Am Mo, den 27.06.2005 schrieb ha haha um 22:13:

    > > Sorry, I must miss something. What makes you think
    > > jpackage.org has a
    > > "default java", which is version 1.4.2?
    > >
    >
    > I think I may have blamed jpacakge wrongly,
    > apologize. But the java version "1.4.2" I complained
    > is from GCJ.

    Oh!

    > by the way, what's the 'exact relationship' between
    > libgcj and jpacakge?

    http://gcc.gnu.org/java/

    jpackage.org provides a skeleton to package Sun's j2re as a Fedora compatible
    RPM.

    > [root@myTest ~]# /usr/bin/java --version
    > java version "1.4.2"
    > gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat
    > 4.0.0-8)

    > Is there a way to remove|uninstall libgcj and use Sun
    > Java 1.5 instead? removing libgcj seems nuking out a
    > lot of other packages depending on it.

    You don't need to remove the Java Fedora ships. There is the
    alternatives mechanism to switch between the different Java engines.

    Alexander 

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