[arch-general] gcc-gcj, webplugin and java.security package

[Andreas Radke]

Am Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:19:34 +0100
schrieb Ondřej Kučera <ondrej.kucera at centrum.cz>:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to make a certain applet (which is inside an internal
> company information system so unfortunately I can't provide a link)
> working on x86_64. I tried libgcjwebplugin from gcc-gcj and it starts
> loading the applet but then it prints the following error to stdout
> (and the applet doesn't work):
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre/lib/security/cacerts
> (No such file or directory)
> 
> I think that this is quite weird, I thought that there would be a
> problem that the applet uses some Java features that aren't yet
> implemented in gcj/gnu classpath, but this seems to say that it just
> looks for some certificates in a really strange place - which could be
> a bug of gcj or a bug in the way how it's packaged in ArchLinux, I
> have no idea what is the case here. But anyway if I do "pacman -Ql
> gcc-gcj" the paths look very different from this one. If i try
> "locate cacerts" I get /opt/java/jre/lib/security/cacerts which of
> course belongs to jre package.
> 
> So, does anyone have a clue if this might have some solution? I also
> attached the whole stacktrace if that could help.
> 
> 

please file a bug for the gcc-gcj package. it seems there must be an
option to build the gcj package with additional security features.

-AndyRTR