On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 03:17 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > So, looking into this further, apart from java-gcj-compat and > eclipse-ecj, we have two packages that depend on gcc-gcj (gjdoc and > jikes) and two that makedepend on java-gcj-compat (bcprov, juint - can > probably be changed to openjdk6), but nothing else for eclipse-ecj. > The apache-ant and openjdk6 PKGBUILDs both mention java-gcj-compat in a > trivial way. > > So packages that would also need looked at to be removed when gcc-gcj, > java-gcj-compat and eclipse-ecj go, are gjdoc and jikes. Jikes is a > orphan and dead upstream as far as I can tell. It is also not needed > given javac that comes with openjdk6. gjdoc is currently only a dep for > java-gcj-compat. > > The only issue with packages in [community] is that classpath depends in > jikes.
The makedepends on gcj or java-gcj-compat can be changed to openjdk6. As for classpath in community: classpath is an abandoned project and was merged into gcj, which was abandoned when Sun released OpenJDK as GPL. I don't think we should care so much about it. About eclipse-ecj: it's outdated because of the gcj patch, newer versions don't work with gcj. We could keep it and build with openjdk if we want, as eclipse-ecj is a faster compiler than javac itself in some situations (mainly when used as JSP compiler for Tomcat or any other servlet container).
