Building log4j with free compiler (was: [Alan Tam] Re: IMPORTANT [RFS] liblog4j1.2-java build from sources)

[Arnaud Vandyck]

System.out.println("Hi!");

I've tried to build log4j with free compilers but it fails. Alan Tam
investigate a lot more and here is the result.

Thanks to him,

Regards,

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> Re: IMPORTANT [RFS] liblog4j1.2-java build from sources
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> Fri, 30 Jul 2004 19:05:30 +0800
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> Hi,
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> On 2004-07-28 20:38, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
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> >[...]
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> >So I built log4j with sablevm, ant1.6 and jikes... but it fails. I don't
> >know why but I've been unable to 'exclude' classes to build. So at the
> >moment, log4j is built using jikes-classpath (oups, I forgot 'classpath'
> >dependency) and fastjar... and all classes are not built!
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> >This is the line to find all the sources to be built:
> >  files = $(shell find src/java -name \*.java \
> >            | grep -v chainsaw | grep -v lf5 \
> >            | grep -v jms | grep -v jmx | grep -v JMS)
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> >And this is the lines two install the package:
> >  deb http://people.debian.org/~avdyk/debian ./
> >  deb-src http://people.debian.org/~avdyk/debian ./
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> I have just tested building log4j1.2-1.2.8 with sablevm, ant1.6 and 
> jikes. Only 2 build problems occurred:
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> 1. lf5/viewer failed to build because of the following missing methods:
>    - javax.swing.JTable.getRowHeight
>    - javax.swing.JTable.sizeColumnsToFit
>    - javax.swing.JTable.setRowHeight
>    - javax.swing.JTextArea.setWrapStyleWord
>    - javax.swing.JTree.setCellEditor
>    - javax.swing.JTree.setShowsRootHandles
>    - javax.swing.JTree.expandPath
>    - javax.swing.JTree.collapsePath
>    - javax.swing.JTree.getPathForLocation
>    - javax.swing.JTree.getRowBounds
>    - javax.swing.JTree.getRowCount
>    - javax.swing.JTree.isExpanded
> in
>    - 
> src/java/org/apache/log4j/lf5/viewer/categoryexplorer/CategoryExplorerTree.java
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> src/java/org/apache/log4j/lf5/viewer/categoryexplorer/CategoryImmediateEditor.java
>    - 
> src/java/org/apache/log4j/lf5/viewer/categoryexplorer/CategoryNodeEditor.java
>    - 
> src/java/org/apache/log4j/lf5/viewer/configure/ConfigurationManager.java
>    - src/java/org/apache/log4j/lf5/viewer/LF5SwingUtils.java
>    - src/java/org/apache/log4j/lf5/viewer/LogBrokerMonitor.java
>    - src/java/org/apache/log4j/lf5/viewer/LogTable.java
> This should be solved if lf5/viewer (or the whole lf5, which was 
> introduced in version 1.2.5) is removed from the package, maybe moved to 
> a second package.
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> 2. rmic fails even after set to use the one from kaffe. But this affects 
> the RMI example only, which is safe to ignore.
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> >[...]
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> >So here are the possible way (if there are more, thanks to comment):
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> >. log4j stays in free but without some packages (chainsaw, lf5, jmx and
> >  jms)
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> >. log4j goes back to contrib and will be built with non-free JVM's
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> >. we make two packages available.
> >
> >Thanks for your time and comments,
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> Given "This version of LogFactor5 is not completely integrated with 
> log4j [1], I suppose we can first remove the offending packages to fix 
> the rc bug and after the problem it solved, it is split into a second 
> package.
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> Regards,
> Alan
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> [1] 
> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/org/apache/log4j/lf5/package-summary.html
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