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
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
--
--------------------- Ola Lundqvist ---------------------------
/ opal@debian.org Annebergsslingan 37 \
| opal@lysator.liu.se 654 65 KARLSTAD |
| +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 |
| http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 |
\ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 /
---------------------------------------------------------------
Reply to: