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Re: ITP: openjdk-compiler



Hi

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 09:04:26PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot for that information. I'll try to dig further into this
in order to make it buildable with things from only main.

Regards,

// Ola

> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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