On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:49:53PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:37:42PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > | > | May I ask one more stupid question? I don't understand the > | exact connection between kernel versions and distribution > | versions. I tried to upgrade from slink to potato but found > | that the one thing I really needed (jdk) had been replaced by > | something else (jikes and kaffe) that I couldn't get working. > | Will I have problems if I try to install the stuff from my > | slink CDs on my potato system? > > I think slink used libc5 which is incompatible with libc6. You would > need the libc5 backwards-compatibility package. > > Why is it that kaffe didn't work for you? You might be able to get the > jdk for potato from the blackdown people. I have heard that IBM's jvm > is really good. jikes is a a good and fast compiler -- I use it at > work.
I was just too impatient - and ignorant. I'm very much an amateur self-taught 'applet kiddie' programmer, and I don't know my way around debian. I couldn't find any classes for jikes - the repository directory was empty and 'find / -name *classes*' didn't turn up anything - so I imagined I'd have to go through the hassle of downloading something from somewhere and installing it myself somehow, which frightened me off. However, I came across the classes jar quite by chance when looking for kaffe documentation. 'Klasses.jar', there it was, nearly a MB long, that must be it. Had I missed something in the manpages or was it obvious to a real programmer that it would be there? Anyway, it works - and dazzlingly fast compared with jdk. Thanks for your help. David > > -D > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
