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From: Stefan Jones <cretin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Java and Mozilla (GCC 3 issue)
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 07:42:35
Message-Id: 1040369991.1709.4.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Java and Mozilla (GCC 3 issue) by Dafydd Walters
1 I have done such an ebuild a few months ago, it is called sun-j2sdk and
2 is in portage. You have to download the source manually though due to
3 licence contraints.
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5 With this ebuild you get a working java plugin for gcc-3.2 systems,
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7 Stefan
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9 On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 05:01, Dafydd Walters wrote:
10 > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 12:41, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
11 > > One thing. The source code you download from Sun, is not the same source
12 > > code that they use for their binary release. I am not sure of the
13 > > differences, but I believe the affected areas are in Hotspot.
14 >
15 > I didn't know that. However, I think it might still be nice to have a
16 > source-code ebuild of the JDK (this is very much in keeping with
17 > Gentoo's philosophy, after all), even if it does not correspond to Sun's
18 > "latest and greatest", as the Mozilla plug-in "breakage" is quite
19 > annoying (for me anyway; I'm sure others agree).
20 >
21 > Is anyone aware of work being done on such an ebuild?
22 >
23 >
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