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

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 21 Feb 2010, at 22:56, 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
>
> * 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/lowagie/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_libs"
> -c Anchor.java -o Anchor.o
> /bin/sh: gcj: command not found
> make[2]: *** [Anchor.o] Error 127
>
> I'm confused.

It's using the old version of gcc, because you haven't told it to use  
the new version.

The output you posted specifically told you to run:

      gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4

      source /etc/profile

Stroller.