Silly argument, but strictly for arguments sake, it's the only path to build 
java from source without a pre-existing binary in place. We don't address that 
path in the book, and it is a royal pain to set up a proper build environment, 
but our original binary OJDK 6 was built using gcj. All subsequent iterations 
(including our 7 builds, and soon enough 8) have stemmed from that.

On June 30, 2014 2:42:58 PM CDT, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>If there is a use case, then I can easily change my opinion, but right 
>now the only justification seems to be completeness when building gcc.
>
>   -- Bruce

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