Am Samstag, 25. April 2009 13:15:08 schrieb Allan McRae: > I am having great difficultly getting a working gcc-gcj... It builds > fine using the gcc-gcj-4.3.x package but when I rebuild eclipse-ecj with > the freshly built 4.4.0 package, I can not rebuild gcc-gcj again. > Updating eclipse-ecj to the latest build does not fix the issue. After > two and a half days of trying to track this down, I am ready to give > up. If someone else wants to look at this, go ahead but... > > Do we really need gcc-gcj, eclipse-ecj and java-gcj-compat any more? > Reason I see for removing it: > - I can't get it to build > - java-gcj-compat provides java-runtime, but I checked six packages in > the repos against this and none actually fully worked > - which also is very bad as it is the first package found by pacman for > java-runtime > - we have a free java now in openjdk6 > > Opinions?
gcj is of no use imho. it can be replaced by openjdk. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber [email protected] WWW http://www.archlinux.de
