Re: [gentoo-user] building pdftk (needs gcj)

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 22 February 2010 00:56:47 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> So, I need pdftk to build some documents, so I emerge it and it tells me
> that I need to update my USE flags and rebuild gcc with gcj support.
> 
> So, I do. I added gcj to my global make.conf and ran the emerge, and gcc
> was rebuilt.
> 
> >>> Installing (1 of 2) sys-devel/gcc-4.3.4
> 
>  * The current gcc config appears valid, so it will not be
>  * automatically switched for you.      If you would like to
>  * switch to the newly installed gcc version, do the
>  * following:
> 
>  * gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4
>  * source /etc/profile

   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Did you do this?


> 
>  * No profile selected, unable to utilize --use-old
> 
>  * If you have issues with packages unable to locate libstdc++.la,
>  * then try running 'fix_libtool_files.sh' on the old gcc versions.
> 
> But now pdftk fails to build because there's no gcj command.
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/pdftk-1.41-r1/work/pdftk-1.41/java_libs/com/lowa
> gie/text' gcj -O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -w --encoding=UTF-8
> --classpath="/var/tmp/portage/app-text/pdftk-1.41-r1/work/pdftk-1.41/java_l
> ibs" -c Anchor.java -o Anchor.o
> /bin/sh: gcj: command not found
> make[2]: *** [Anchor.o] Error 127
> 
> I'm confused.
> 
> Mike

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