FedoraPerlBugAndWhatToDoAboutIt

From IcedTea

There is a bug when building IcedTea on a newly-installed Fedora 8 installation that causes the build to fail when a library can't be found.

The symptom looks like this:

... build/linux-i586/corba/tmp/sun/com.sun.corba.se.internal.io/ioser12/obj/ioser.o -L/home/aph/icedtea/bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/i386/server -ljvm -L/home/aph/icedtea/bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/i386 -lgcj -L/home/aph/icedtea/bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/jre/lib/i386/server -ljvm -lc /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ljvm collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[5]: *** [/home/aph/icedtea/openjdk-ecj/build/linux-i586/corba/lib/i386/libioser12.so] Error 1

This is caused by a bug in Perl, which breaks Anaconda (Fedora's installation program).

To solve this problem, you need to re-install gcj. The easiest way is to download the Fedora 8 gcj RPM and install it with --force:

 wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-17.fc8.i386.rpm
 rpm -ihv java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-17.fc8.i386.rpm --force

(This version of gcj is just an example that worked at the time of writing. Be sure to use the latest gcj RPM.)

This bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=377341