Re: Using java-gcj-compat-dev as build dependency
On Dec 20, 2007 4:39 PM, Arnaud Vandyck <avandyck@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/12/20, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>:
> > But the Sun JRE isn't available on all Debian targets.
>
> And building the software with gcj can help to know if there are part
> missing in gcj or if the software uses com.sun.* classes.
>
> If you build with Icedtea/OpenJDK, then, you have to be sure the
> software will run with gcj.
So what is conclusion? We should prefer GCJ as build dependency over
Sun's JDk or OpenJDK/IcedTea, right?
Can we document this somewhere so that new packages follow these guidelines?
Onkar
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