Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 03/10/08 09:42 CST: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:22:12 -0500, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Apache Ant (required by FOP) also needs to be considered. And to >> answer the question, I've never tried with GCJ. Not sure we want >> to go there either unless significant testing is done. > > I tried a while back, and didn't get very far at all (problems with GCJ > itself). Both those bugs (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28572 > and http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28555) are marked as fixed > now, so things might go a bit further for others attempting it now. > Unfortunately, I've lost my list of dependencies for building FOP using GCJ, > so I can't even help out in that regard.
To me, there are two stumbling blocks: 1. Not a great big deal, but the fop shell script would have to be modified quite a bit as it specifically looks for the JRE, JAVA_HOME and other JDK type specifics. 2. This is a major one. Using GCJ means that you have to rebuild and replace your C compiler (unless you install it in an alternate location, fudge the path a bit and perhaps some other mods to accommodate using GCJ from one path but not the C compiler). Not sure if we want to modify the GCC BLFS installation to accommodate a more-or-less stand-alone GCJ installation. Just some thoughts about it, nothing we couldn't work around if we had to. I just can't imagine not having a JRE environment, but that's just me. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.22] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 09:49:00 up 22 days, 37 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.20 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
