On Tue, 17 May 2005 13:04:59 -0500, Justin Conover wrote: > Ok, a little more confusion on my part, if in the before exapmle javac > -version was pointing to eclipse, why do I get this with alternatives: > > # alternatives --display javac > javac - status is auto. > link currently points to /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj/bin/javac Because the Eclipse Java compiler (ejc) is currently used as the Java source to bytecode compiler of the Fedora gcj suite. You can also use gcj -C to compile Java source code to bytecode, but ecj has better support for newer language features (and also it's written in Java itself, which is cool.) If you run /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj/bin/javac you will see that it gives the same output as javac, because the latter points to the former. -- Robin