Hi folks, after the recent discussions about FTBFS due to gcj, I would like to discuss the future of gcj in general here. The thread at [1] brings it pretty much to the point I think, while gcj will not go away, there is basically no further development to be expected upstream. Together with the (now) increasing development of the language, Java 8 got released just two weeks ago, the usefulness of gcj as a JVM is IMHO questionable. I think currently there is no other option besides OpenJDK. I understood that gcj is still needed to build OpenJDK-6/-7, but I currently see no practical use for it beyond that. The OpenJDK-8 upstream source code seems to have some *BSD support, but due to some problems I cannot try to build it on kFreeBSD right now. The question now is how we can proceed? I think it is important to improve the OpenJDK availability in kFreeBSD and slowly think about phasing out gcj all together (if possible). I like to help where possible, but I am neither DM nor DD and so far I do not have experience in building OpenJDK. So I am absolutely not sure what I can do right now. P.S.: I only sent this message to -bsd as the problem is largely the specific kFreeBSD situation and I did not want pollute the -java ML. [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-11/msg00153.html -- Best Regards Jan Henke
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