On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Randy McMurchy
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>
>  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.

The major distros use some wrapper scripts that provide a JDK like
interface to gcj. I forgot the name of the package.

>
>  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.
>

BLFS installs gcc with java on top of the existing gcc. So there is no
need for any hacks.

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