Re: [Swarm-Support] simply installing (on an outdated RedHat 9 system)

[Paul Johnson]

Swarm-2.1.1 is not what you should be using.

Please check instructions here for RH9:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RH9.0/

The problem is that the Sun people have packaged Java so that it has the 
version number in the directory structure, as in

/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_04/

Or some such idiocy.  For making RPMS, there were 2 options. The first 
was to broadcast to everybody "These RPMS need the j2sdk versionXYZ". 
But some people never read directions.  So somewhere along the line, I 
learned how to put the jdk version in as a package requirement. So it 
requires you have a particular j2sdk version.

If you don't want to install the jdk that the rpm requires, then your 
choice is to build a new swarm rpm for yourself. I post the src rpm 
files and as long as you have the devel packages installed (along with 
gperf, Emacs, tcl, etc) then you are able to build.

Still, RH9 came with a bogus compiler and it is much simpler to just use 
 a newer Linux distribution.

Since RH9 is an old platform--now "officially" past the end of its 
product shelflife (I don't know many people still running it) I don't 
know how worthwhile for me be to release a new RPM for RH9. I MAY 
actually have an RH9 system up and running, so I'll check and see what 
kind of a project it would be to bring it into line.

But I'm going to require a particular j2sdk version, you know, probably 
1.4.2_04 or whatever the most current is....

pj



Kyle Newton wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I'm trying to install swarm on RedHat Enterprise edition. I've managed
> to hunt down all the required libraries and install them, along with
> the actual Swarm-2.1.1 RH9 rpm, swarm-gcj, swarm-static. I've
> installed the latest JDK version 1.4.2, but when I attemp to run
> swarm-jdk it tells me I need java-1.4.1 or something like that. I
> haven't found a swarm-jdk rpm that works for me.
>
> I've been working with Swarm since early May, 2004 and have not had
> any problems with it. I'd managed to install it on a desktop pc
> running RedHat 8 without many problems. My emergency now is I've got a
> presentation to do Tuesday morning and I can't seem to get over this
> roadblock. I AM a windows user, I've only become familiar with linux
> since May 03, 2004.
>
> Is there anything I may be doing wrong with the rpms, or any quick tip
> to get me pointed in the right direction? Thank you for your help.
>
> -Kyle Newton
> Research Assistant at Okanagan University


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