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From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@g.o>
To: Joseph Booker <joe@××××××××××.net>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] compiling java vs. binary
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:34:38
Message-Id: 20040318103426.GA13635@boblycat.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] compiling java vs. binary by Joseph Booker
1 On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:27:41PM -0600, Joseph Booker wrote:
2 > Im wondering if java programs in portage really require to be compiled,
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4 Yes, they most definitely do.
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6 > I dont no of any that i use (mainly just the jdk and jedit) that has
7 > USE flags or anything like that that changes the files compiled, so whats
8 > the point of having them compiled when the binary versions would be just
9 > the same on any arch?
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11 For an initial list of arguments:
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13 http://dev.gentoo.org/~karltk/why-build-java-code.html
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16 Kind regards,
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18 Karl T
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