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From: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:28:23
Message-Id: 44E5B2D5.2080705@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations] by Mike Cvet
1 Mike Cvet wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 21:05 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 >> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:42:52 -0500 "James Potts" <arek75@×××××.com>
4 >> wrote:
5 >> | hmmm....doesn't the GNU ClassPath implement enough of Java's runtimes
6 >> | to handle a command-line app like this (the app needs, basically, to
7 >> | be able to read files, communicate via the http protocol, print to
8 >> | stdout, and accept input from stdin)? And doesn't Kaffe use the GNU
9 >> | ClassPath? And if this is the case, couldn't GCJ be used in the place
10 >> | of Kaffe to build this app on platforms that aren't supported by Kaffe
11 >> | (or on all platforms, if that is desired)?
12 >>
13 >> What makes you think gcj works?
14 >>
15 >
16 > What makes you think it doesn't?
17
18 For one example, it won't even build on mips (although it is possible
19 some recent binutils changes has finally fixed that).
20
21 -Steve
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