[sclug] Java with Mozilla

[Alex Butcher]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Andy Arbon wrote:

> Well, if it was a gentoo system it would be a case of 'emerge sun-jdk
> mozilla', and (after the compilation completes, granted) everything
> would work...

Hmmm... is there source for Sun's JDK available then? (as distinct from the
Blackdown port)

The OP's original problem may be that his JVM has been compiled with a
different version of gcc than his copy of Mozilla. If that's the case, I
can't really see that gentoo would do any better if only binaries of the JDK
are available (as I suspect).

[snip]

> Incompatibility between library versions is essentially impossible on a
> Gentoo system as all the parts of the system are built against each
> other. It's also the only system I know of where (for the same reason)
> you can reliably mix parts of the stable and testing branches together
> without risking the stability of the entire system - Using an unstable
> version of mplayer doesn't involve upgrading all of the things that
> mplayer depends on, for example, it will happily build against the
> versions you have installed.

Unless the API of a dependency changes.

You can work the same way with Debian and Red Hat, if you build from their
respective source packages. Personally, the only binaries I install are Red
Hat/Fedora's own (after checking the GPG signature, naturally). Everything
else, I build from src.rpms - sometimes from later releases, sometimes based
upon later released but updated to newer sources, sometimes created from
scratch, and sometimes borrowed and ported from other RPM-using distros
(though this is very much a last choice).

> Andy

Best Regards,
Alex.
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