This is from within a testing chroot, I never did any java setup or configuration. But it should work out of the box ... checking for jikes... /usr/bin/jikes checking jikes version... !!! ERROR: The active vm could not be found !!! Could not find runtime classes checking for kJC... no checking for gcjx... no checking for ecj... no checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for mkdir... /bin/mkdir checking for cp... /bin/cp checking for date... /bin/date checking for find... /usr/bin/find checking for zip... /usr/bin/zip checking for fastjar... no checking for stdint types... stdint.h (shortcircuit) make use of stdint.h in include/config-int.h (assuming C99 compatible system) configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating doc/api/Makefile config.status: creating external/Makefile config.status: creating external/sax/Makefile config.status: creating external/w3c_dom/Makefile config.status: creating external/relaxngDatatype/Makefile config.status: creating gnu/classpath/Configuration.java config.status: creating include/Makefile config.status: creating native/Makefile config.status: creating native/fdlibm/Makefile config.status: creating native/jawt/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/classpath/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/java-io/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/java-lang/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/java-net/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/java-nio/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/java-util/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/gtk-peer/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/qt-peer/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/xmlj/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/midi-alsa/Makefile config.status: creating native/jni/midi-dssi/Makefile config.status: creating native/target/Makefile config.status: creating native/target/Linux/Makefile config.status: creating native/target/generic/Makefile config.status: creating resource/Makefile config.status: creating scripts/Makefile config.status: creating scripts/classpath.spec config.status: creating lib/Makefile config.status: creating lib/gen-classlist.sh config.status: creating lib/copy-vmresources.sh config.status: creating tools/Makefile config.status: creating examples/Makefile config.status: creating examples/Makefile.jawt config.status: creating include/config.h config.status: linking ./include/jni_md-x86-linux-gnu.h to include/jni_md.h config.status: executing depfiles commands config.status: executing include/config-int.h commands config.status: creating include/config-int.h : _CLASSPATH_INCLUDE_CONFIG_INT_H config.status: executing gen-classlist commands config.status: executing copy-vmresources commands Making all in lib make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/gnu-classpath-0.90/work/classpath-0.90/lib' mkdir -p ../java/util ../scripts/generate-locale-list.sh > ../java/util/LocaleData.java true top_builddir=.. top_srcdir=.. /bin/sh ./gen-classlist.sh standard Adding java source files from srcdir '..'. Adding java source files from VM directory ../vm/reference /usr/bin/jikes +Pno-switchcheck +F -bootclasspath '' -extdirs '' -sourcepath '' --classpath ../vm/reference:..:../external/w3c_dom:../external/sax:../external/relaxngDatatype:.: -d . @classes !!! ERROR: The active vm could not be found !!! Could not find runtime classes make[1]: *** [compile-classes] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/gnu-classpath-0.90/work/classpath-0.90/lib' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 * * ERROR: dev-java/gnu-classpath-0.90 failed. Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r1 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ Timestamp of tree: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/svn/env /usr/kde/svn/share/config /usr/kde/svn/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gcj gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly objc openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i810 mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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