Re: kaffe status
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Per Bothner wrote:
> Ben Burton wrote:
>
> >>Well, the gcj runtimes (libgcj or whatever the package name is)
> >>should be fixed to provide java-runtime.
> >>
> >
> >Oh.. I had figured it was a deliberate decision on behalf of the gcc
> >maintainers not to provide java-runtime (for reasons such as command-line
> >incompatibility, etc).
> >
> The "gij" command tries to be more-or-less compatible with the "java"
> command.
>
> If by "gcc maintainers" you means the Debian gcc maintainers, I don't know
> who they are. But if you mean the people actually developing gcj, well I
> don't know if any of them are involved in maintaining Debian packages.
Yes, well, it's not.
I have found that, in theory, gcj and gij are compatible, in reality they are
not. To be compatable, they *MUST* take *EXACTLY* the same arguments as other
standard $(JAVA) and $(JAVAC).
I've had to put special code into my own build system to switch between
standard jvms and the gcj suite.
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