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Re: ITP: openjdk-compiler



On 11/14/06, Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> wrote:
Hi

Some people may remember that I was working for a couple of years
on the java-policy, but stopped that after a while because it was so
hard to get things working as Sun java was the "standard" and it could
not go to main, or even non-free at that time. Now when Sun has changed
their mind on this, then I get my enthuiasm back. :)

I know your work and I thank you for that. It's good to see you back.

I'd like to invite you to join the Alioth's pkg-java project, are you
ok with that?

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:39:00AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
[...]
> You need a jdk to bootstrap the compiler:
> https://openjdk.dev.java.net/compiler/README.html#build

Seems so. I hoped that I could use jvm from gcj or kaffe to build it. I have
tried gij and gcj. Next try will be kaffe as I want to be able to build
it with things from main only, so it can go to main. I'll make a few tries
now.

There are some discussions at classpath@gnu.org to try to build javac
and hotspot with classpath library. This could also be an option.

[...]
> Please, go co-maintaining with people who already worked on the jdk package.

I'll do that, especially for the jdk as that seems more complicated than
the compiler. I have filed an ITP for that as well. :)

People with interest about Sun's jdk in main, raise your keyboard in
the air, like you just care :-D (avdyk: hip hop fan).

--
Arnaud Vandyck



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