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On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:11:11 +0000 |
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Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote: |
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> You can start with gcc-5.4 with the gcj use flag. |
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> That will bootstrap icedtea:7 |
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> icedtea:7 will bootstrap icedtea:8 |
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> Tested on arm64. |
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> With icedtea:7 going and gcc-5.4 not having a very long future, |
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> building icedtea for a new arch will be painful. |
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If someone wants icedtea on a new arch then I'll do whatever I can to |
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fudge a build together and create an icedtea-bin from it. It only has |
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to be done once for each arch. This is essentially what binary distros |
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do and given that this is good enough for Red Hat, they haven't spent |
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effort on making icedtea bootstrappable some other way like JamVM. |
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I think some choose the gcj route because they think it is purer but |
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this is not really true. There are precompiled binaries involved, |
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whichever route you take. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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