Re: ITP: openjdk-compiler
Hi,
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 16:53 +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:55:24PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote:
> > > I have now determined that it can build using itself as compiler
> > > (If I make a preliminary version bootstrapped with binary sun javac).
> >
> > Then it would have to go in non-free unfortunately. Can the bootstrap
> > compiler be built with gcj instead?
>
> Bootstraping is perfectly ok for compilers and such. Many of the
> core packages in Debian can actually not be built without
> special handling in the beginning, and in many cases later on when
> binary formats are changed and so on. So that is not a problem.
There are some efforts to get Sun javac to build and run with the
existing free stack. See the GNU Classpath wiki:
http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathCurrentTopics
And Andrew Hughes blog:
http://blog.fuseyism.com/?p=18
We are not completely there yet though.
Cheers,
Mark
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