Description of problem: javac on the bunch of .java files failed with: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main at 0x0000008000d6bad0 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d69878 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d68d64 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d53220 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d557f0 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d57420 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000e05994 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d3a9f4 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000cf085c (Unknown Source) at 0x000000800003c9f8 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008001bde27c (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008001bde474 (Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main not found in gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:./], parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.ExtensionClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}} at 0x0000008000d6bad0 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d69878 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d68d64 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d68df0 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d53310 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d525a0 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d525e4 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000edccfc (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d5136c (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d50df8 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d30bac (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000d2f674 (Unknown Source) at 0x0000008000e0591c (Unknown Source) ...5 more ecj-3.1-0.M4.9 is in the buildroot currently.
We don't have Eclipse (and hence eclipse-ecj) on ppc64 yet. If there's an old ecj package on ppc64, it should probably be removed.
java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-devel bundles a recent eclipse-ecj jarfile on platforms where eclipse is not yet built. So you'll probably hit this bug when you start porting eclipse to ppc64.
I (finally) added ia64 and ppc64 to the Eclipse build arches. I'll see what happens ...
The subversion javahl build appears to work on ppc64 in dist-fc5. Should I close this?
I can't see why not. We should really verify that these work with the subclipse eclipse plugin (the last time I tried, they didn't).