is there another, older compatibility-required compiler that will still be in SLES15? then we could use that to build pdftk...

Actually, there is a way to build this in a project for openSUSE:Factory, but in SLE15, the gcc6 (last that has gcj) will not be.

but will there be an older one? For compatibility reasons? pdftk built without changes since gcc-4.x

Fridrich Strba (fstrba) - over 6 years ago

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No, no GCJ will be in SLE15. If it was otherwise, I would not bother to remove the gcj dependency in everything where it was humanly possible :( Pdftk is a special beast. OTOH, for the reasons of being able to bootstrap java myself, I have a repository Java:bootstrap that I will maintain buildable for quite a time, so it can live there and one can get it from there, but that is the most one can do at this point. The other solution would be to port those C++ files to Java and use pdftk as a pure Java application.

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Stefan Seyfried (seife) - over 6 years ago

Let's just drop it. My "customers" can just use the package from Leap 42.3 for the next 20 years ;-)

I don't understand why there won't be a compatible version of gcc available at all. gcc just released updates to gcc 5 just the day before yesterday, let alone gcc6.

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