[Java-gnome-developer] Compiling 0.14.0 on RedHat 7.1

[Philip A. C. <the...@be...>]

I'm having trouble compiling gnome-gcj 0.14.0.  I'm running RedHat 7.1. 
I've installed gcc 3.0 in /usr/local/gcc-3.0 and I've exported the 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:

[wyvern@red_dragon gnome-gcj-0.14.0]$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/local/gcc-3.0/lib


I've altered PATH so that gcj 3.0 is used:

[wyvern@red_dragon gnome-gcj-0.14.0]$ gcj --version
3.0


When running configure, I get the following error:

checking version of gcj and gcjh... earlier than 2.96
*** GCJ is too old. 2.96 or later is required.
configure: error: GCJ was not found


Knowing that I have 2.96 or greater, I copy configure to onfigure_local, 
and edit it.  I take out the portion of the configure file which tests 
the version of gcj:

<BEGIN cut portion of script>
else
     echo $ac_n "checking version of gcj and gcjh""... $ac_c" 1>&6
echo "configure:2044: checking version of gcj and gcjh" >&5
     gcj_fullver=`$GCJH --version | head -1 | sed 's/gcjh //'`

     case "$gcj_fullver" in
     *experimental*)
       # Probably 2.96 or later
       gcj_date=`echo $gcj_fullver | sed 's/(\(.*\) \(.*\) 
(experimental))/\2/'`
       echo "$ac_t""2.96 from $gcj_date" 1>&6
       if test "20000501" = "" -o "$gcj_date" -ge "20000501"; then
	:

       else
         echo "*** GCJ is too old. A 2.96 snapshot from 20000501 or 
later is required."
         { echo "configure: error: GCJ was not found" 1>&2; exit 1; }
       fi
       ;;
     *0.0|*)
       # Probably 2.95.x or earlier
       echo "$ac_t""earlier than 2.96" 1>&6
       if test "20000501" != ""; then
         echo "*** GCJ is too old. 2.96 or later is required."
         { echo "configure: error: GCJ was not found" 1>&2; exit 1; }
       else
	:

       fi
       ;;
     esac
<END Cut>


It gets past the version test (since it no longer exists), but gives me 
an error linking against libgcj:

checking for libgcj library... found in /usr
*** I could not compile and/or run a program with GCJ. It may be that
*** you haven't set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. See the file config.log for
*** more details.
configure: error: libgcj was not found


Interesting since I do have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set (see above) and even the
version of libgcj which comes with RedHat's bundled gcc 2.96 doesn't 
reside in /usr.  So, I use the command line option 
--with-libgcj=/usr/local/gcc-3.0/lib
Still, even though it uses the correct directory, it still cannot link 
against libgcj:

checking for libgcj library... found in /usr/local/gcc-3.0/lib
*** I could not compile and/or run a program with GCJ. It may be that
*** you haven't set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH. See the file config.log for
*** more details.
configure: error: libgcj was not found


I would *REALLY* appreciate any help at all in solving this issue.  If 
any other information is needed, please email me and I'll be glad to 
supply it.

Thanks