Hi Peter, > >Where is this supposed to be? I don't find it anywhere on my system. > > okay you will have to copy xerces.jar from your solaris system or > alternatively get xerces from cvs (goto xml.apache.org to get details). >
I'll go get it. I guess others who compiled successfully on Linux already had it. > specifically look at these lines in bootstrap. JAVA_HOME should be set to > your java directory and you currently have it set to /usr/local/java. /usr/local/java is a symbolic link to /usr/local/jdk1.2.2 > Make sure you are not using the kaffe virtual machine/compiler which comes > with default instal on some distributions (notably the red hat distros). In > which case try to uninstall it or put /usr/local/java/bin at the start of > PATH environment variable (by export PATH=/usr/local/java/bin:$PATH if in a > bourne style shell) . > Ahh! Herein lies the problem! I found an extra javac in /usr/bin or some such directory so got rid of it and progressed further. Some other problem came up but I will tackle that tomorrow. Many thanks! Dennis
