[ATrpms-users] ProjectX on FC5?

[John Pilkington]

Alex Butcher wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:03:12PM +0000, John Pilkington wrote:
>>> ProjectX  ( Java ) is being suggested as a useful tool to work around
>>> this.  An rpm exists (Suse) that is said to work on FC5 but it needs
>>> jakarta-commons-net, versions of which exist for older redhat and for
>>> mandriva but apparently not for fc5.  ProjectX source is, of course,
>>> available but needs a Java development environment (and no doubt some
>>> expertise) and I'm not sure that I have either.
>>
>> Alex Butcher had submitted a package for projectx in April (e.g. FC4
>> era), but it only built against Sun's java, so it couldn't be included
>> into ATrpms at that time. Maybe by now projectx builds on FC6.
> 
> I need to upgrade to FC6 sometime. Meh, pesky "life". :-]
> 
>> Alex, if you like you can open up the existing packages into
>> http://people.atrpms.net/~abutcher/ (it's ~/public_html in your
>> account, you would need to chmod o+x $HOME first)
> 
> Done, and I've uploaded a src.rpm for 0.90.4.00, which is what I'm 
> currently
> using.
> 
Alex: Thanks for the cc

I downloaded the src.rpm and tried rpmbuild --rebuild
It wants java-devel, and I saw a comment that it doesn't work with gcj 
but don't know if that's still true.  I'll try to find my way around it 
but hope that Axel gets there first!

John Pilkington