Azureus/gcj x86_64 (i'm on i386)

David Timms dtimms at bigpond.net.au
Wed Jul 5 12:39:16 UTC 2006


Anthony Green wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 09:13 +1000, David Timms wrote:
>> On FC5, I couldn't get either limewire or azureus to run with gcj. Went 
>> with the sun rpm.bins and both works fine. You obviously got further 
>> than I did.
> 
> Are you actually running the azureus from Fedora Extras?
Ack. {Sean:Linux davidtdesktop 2.6.17-1.2138_FC5 #1 Tue Jun 20 16:39:39 
EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux}

> What does "rpm -qf /usr/bin/azureus" say?
azureus-2.4.0.3-0.20060529cvs_1.fc5
  Build Host: hammer2.fedora.redhat.com

> Older unpackaged versions of azureus didn't run on gcj because they used
> proprietary Sun extensions to the java platform.  I fixed all this in
> the FE version and got my changes accepted upstream.  Very new versions
> should run, but I recommend running the FE packaged release.

# alternatives --display java
java - status is manual.
  link currently points to /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/java
/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java - priority 1420
...
/opt/jre1.5/bin/java - priority 2
...
/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_06/bin/java - priority 2
...
Current `best' version is /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj

---2.4.0.3_cvs
Java 1.5.0_06
  Sun Microsystems Inc.
SWT v3139, gtk
Linux v2.6.17-1.2138_FC5, i386

---2.4.0.2 (from jar)
Java 1.5.0_06
  Sun Microsystems Inc.
SWT v3139, gtk
Linux v2.6.17-1.2138_FC5, i386
/bin/java.

Looks like both start OK, and both currently use sun java.

I changed alternative to auto:
link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java
I can confirm what you said 2.4.0.2 crashes during startup on gcj, while 
2.4.0.3_cvs on gcj runs, and seems to be downloading some fudcon videos OK.

DavidT.




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