The problem with Classpath, and in fact a number of other programs that I'm working on porting, is that it requires a working Java compiler in addition to a set of native compilers. This means, simply, that I can't use Scratchbox to develop it: Jikes was easy to get running inside of Scratchbox, being a simple C app, but eclipse-ecj and sun-javac (the two supported compilers) have a huge set of dependencies and extremely difficult to resolve linker issues, for one and two. Since I can't use Scratchbox to develop it, and I have to compile outside of Scratchbox, there's a small host of -other- issues that come up. Supposedly we're going to see a Scratchbox Java DevKit to fix this issue, but until then, it's a solvable but extremely difficult problem.

Finally, don't get me started on the CodeSourcery 2005 tool chains.