Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging java with gcj

2007-10-14 Thread Randy Barlow
Florian Philipp wrote: I've noticed that the gcj use flag is not enabled by default and therefore all java code is compiled to byte code instead of native binaries, am I correct? gcj can compile java code directly to machine code, and I'm pretty sure that the Sun compiler just compiles to byte

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging java with gcj

2007-10-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 10/14/07, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: I've noticed that the gcj use flag is not enabled by default and therefore all java code is compiled to byte code instead of native binaries, am I correct? gcj can compile java code directly to machine code, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging java with gcj

2007-10-14 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:59:23 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that the gcj use flag is not enabled by default and therefore all java code is compiled to byte code instead of native binaries, am I correct? I think the gcj flag toggles if java support is added

[gentoo-user] Emerging java with gcj

2007-10-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! I've noticed that the gcj use flag is not enabled by default and therefore all java code is compiled to byte code instead of native binaries, am I correct? I wonder how I can change that. Just re-emerge gcc with USE=gcj and all packages containing java code? Is it even a good idea? --