Bug 155288

Summary:	Some problems in gcj
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Forgotten User v5inq2MBSE <forgotten_v5inq2MBSE>
Component:	Java	Assignee:	Daniel Bornkessel <dbornkessel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jsmeix
Version:	Beta 6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
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Description Forgotten User v5inq2MBSE 2006-03-04 14:00:29 UTC

With 10.1 beta 6 I was able first time to use tomcat with gcj. Nearly everything works fine, bot there are some isues:

Dependencies:
tomcat doesn't work without jta, jaf and some other "unfree" stufff. There are REQUIRES entries in the spec, but yast doesn't care and installs tomcat without any error message, but it doesn't work and we do have again broken links - remember Bug #148502 (ok, seems to be no gcj but a yast problem).

java-1_4_2-gcj-compat contains the java command which is a shell script which is calling gcj. gcj is part of gcc-java, but there is no REQUIRES entry in java-1_4_2-gcj-compat, so it can be installed without gcj, but doesn't work in any case (not even "java -version" works without a error meesage).

Java itselve:
Try this one:

NumberFormat nf	= NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(java.util.Locale.GERMANY);

and you get a "java.lang.IllegalArgumentExeption: The currency code, DM, is not supported". I was "Eurobeauftragter" in our company, I think it's time to switch germany to Euro in gcj/classpath, too ;-)

On the other side, I'm astonished my WebProjects work without a problem (when the currence/NumberFormat problem is fixed) with gcj instead of Suns java. I'm happy to see, we are on a good way for a completele free java.

Comment 1 Daniel Bornkessel 2006-03-07 10:45:42 UTC

Johannes: Will assigne that one to you as you are the gcj-compat maintainer.
After that, it should probably go to Michael Matz (gcj/classpath stuff).
Regards,
Daniel

Comment 2 Johannes Meixner 2006-03-07 11:34:19 UTC

java-1_4_2-gcj-compat cannot require gcc-java, see bug #151732.
(For the full story see also bug #144113 and bug #154105.)

I don't know how to solve it automatically via RPM requirements
in the java-1_4_2-gcj-compat* packages (i.e. for me it is WONTFIX),
see in particular the comments near the end of bug #151732

Perhaps there could be additional RPM requirements in tomcat?
I know that tomcat cannot simply require the gcc-java package directly
but it might require a RPM capabiliy which is provided by the
apporopriate packages so that YaST can let the user choose?

I reassign it back to the tomcat/jboss/jonas maintainer,
in particular to answer my questions in bug #151732.
Daniel,
please post an answer regarding java-1_4_2-gcj-compat-devel
in bug #151732.

Comment 3 Johannes Meixner 2006-03-07 12:37:42 UTC

To get the various issues seperated, I filed bug #155729

Comment 4 Daniel Bornkessel 2006-03-28 09:31:18 UTC

The 
java-1_4_2-gcj-compat-devel
package now provides java-devel and requires gcc-java, Johannes changed that yesterday.
If I understand correctly this bug is fixed by this change, isn't it?
Will close the bug as fixed ... if anybody has any objections, please feel free to re-open it again.
@Johannes: Any objections?

Regarding the non free dependencies: It will be a major focus for Johannes and me, getting all the non-free stuff substitutions from the classpath project into the next release (is to say: Version 10.2).
Best regards,
Daniel

Comment 5 Johannes Meixner 2006-03-28 09:54:12 UTC

FIXED.