On 9/17/08, Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@...> wrote:
> First of all, there is no need to go to such lengths removing gcj afterwards.
>  It's not going to hurt to leave it on.

It takes a lot of resources (disk, time rebuilding, unused components).
So there is a reason to keep system as small as possible.

>  Also, the build depends on jdk >= 1.5 already, so CACAO or JamVM would
>  do the job fine.  But you'd have similar bootstrap issues, because these
>  require GNU Classpath and that requires ecj, etc.

So gcj is the best alternative. But what happens if gcc stops
providing this in favor of OpenJDK?

>  Building a Java environment can be a nightmare to be honest :)
>  I guess the only non-GCJ way would be to use Jikes, then an older Classpath
>  to get ecj working, then build the new ones.

I guess I am asking that icedtea6 does not have such boostrap in package...
If it does not provide this, users should have a simple way to
bootstrap it in Gentoo... Providing a simple script is sufficient.

Thanks,
Alon.