Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Lie Ryan <lie.1296@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] [gentoo-user] no javac on gentoo amd64?
Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:02:37
Message-Id: 4BB6FFEF.6020506@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] [gentoo-user] no javac on gentoo amd64? by Xi Shen
1 On 04/03/10 18:17, Xi Shen wrote:
2 > hi,
3 >
4 > my system is gentoo amd 64. java-config -L show i have two VMs on my system:
5 >
6 > The following VMs are available for generation-2:
7 > 1) IcedTea6-bin 1.7.1 [icedtea6-bin]
8 > *) Sun JRE 1.6.0.18 [sun-jre-bin-1.6]
9 >
10 > but when i ran javac, it says:
11 >
12 > * javac is not available for sun-jre-bin-1.6 on x86_64
13 > * IMPORTANT: some Java tools are not available on some VMs on some architectures
14 >
15 > we do not have javac on amd64 system? how to fix this?
16 > i did not find much use information on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml
17
18 javac, the java compiler, is not avaialable for any JRE, the *runtime*
19 environment.
20
21 You need to install a JDK, the *development* kit which contains the
22 compiler. Note that if you install JDK, you don't need a JRE anymore as
23 the JDK includes all the component of JRE.