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On 9/17/08, Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> First of all, there is no need to go to such lengths removing gcj afterwards. |
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> It's not going to hurt to leave it on. |
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It takes a lot of resources (disk, time rebuilding, unused components). |
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So there is a reason to keep system as small as possible. |
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> Also, the build depends on jdk >= 1.5 already, so CACAO or JamVM would |
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> do the job fine. But you'd have similar bootstrap issues, because these |
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> require GNU Classpath and that requires ecj, etc. |
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So gcj is the best alternative. But what happens if gcc stops |
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providing this in favor of OpenJDK? |
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> Building a Java environment can be a nightmare to be honest :) |
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> I guess the only non-GCJ way would be to use Jikes, then an older Classpath |
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> to get ecj working, then build the new ones. |
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I guess I am asking that icedtea6 does not have such boostrap in package... |
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If it does not provide this, users should have a simple way to |
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bootstrap it in Gentoo... Providing a simple script is sufficient. |
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Thanks, |
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Alon. |