[Plplot-general] Building the java binding on Debian testing/unstable

[Rafael L. <rla...@us...>]

Here is a tip for those out there building the PLplot Java binding on
Debian testing or unstable systems (or any other derivative distribution,
like Ubuntu).  It is enough to install the java-gcj-compat-dev package
and use --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj.  This will become the
default method to build java packages in Debian soon.

On my unstable system, java-gcj-compat-dev depends currently on gcj-4.1
and libgcj7-dev, which belong to the recommended version of the GCJ
compiler. The symlink /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj points correctly to the Java
home directory /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.1-1.4.2.0.

-- 
Rafael