> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:51:09 +0200 > From: Pierre Labastie <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] Is Java AWT peer needed for GCC java? > . . > Back in business, > (Solved my mail problem. My ISP had decided to SPAM some of the mails > and not others, and put them in the webmail trash instead of sending > them to me. It was my first time on their site: I do not like webmail's, > because you see more ads than mails) >
Do you have imap access to the account: if so, then you could likely see all the folders from your ordinary mail client. > Concerning gcj, I have been pretty disappointed to see that the > development had stalled, but that may be easily understood since the > developers went to OJDK. As DJ says, the only use I see is that you can > build OJDK "from scratch" with gcj. Whether it is silly or not is a > question about where "scratch" is, when we say "linux from scratch". > Certainly coding in binary and create an assembler would be just silly, I think you just exemplified how much it's a subjective issue. May be silly to you, but very interesting and useful to others. > but relying on too many external resources certainly defeats the goal of > LFS (for example why not use gentoo if you want to build yourself, and a > regular distro if you just want to use the software, and so on). So > "scratch" is in between... Initially, that was my proposition to not > rely on an external resource to build OJDK. Since I saw that nobody was > really enthusiastic, I lost my interest. OTOH, the page is almost ready > to be added to the book. > Fwiw, +1 from here for builds that are: from-source, from a pre-downloaded set of tarballs, no binary installer or cfg/bld/inst-time downloads, and that are fully-configurable prior to runtime. > Concerning Ada, it is really different: the package is mature, Ada is > used by some category of persons (in aerospace industry at least), and > it does not add any new dependencies, so I think we may have it in the > book. > I think Randy did a rather good hint a bunch'o'years back, on Ada, full-gcc-install, and so on - maybe also including Fortran ( "Fortran From Scratch" - FFS ... ;) . rgds, akh > Pierre > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
