Re: [blfs-dev] Is Java AWT peer needed for GCC java?

2014-07-02 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 01/07/2014 16:30, Pierre Labastie a écrit : > Back to the subject: I have tried the QT AWT peer, and again, libjawt is not > built. So the only possibility seems to be gtk, which needs libart_lgpl. OK, > since the only usage of GCC-Java would be to build OJDK from scratch, let me > see if OJDK

Re: [blfs-dev] Is Java AWT peer needed for GCC java?

2014-07-01 Thread Fernando de Oliveira
Em 01-07-2014 15:59, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: > Pierre Labastie wrote: > >> 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

Re: [blfs-dev] Is Java AWT peer needed for GCC java?

2014-07-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: 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. Ada was designed for the US Department of Defense, su

Re: [blfs-dev] Is Java AWT peer needed for GCC java?

2014-07-01 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 01/07/2014 14:17, akhiezer a écrit : Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:51:09 +0200 From: Pierre Labastie To: blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org 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

Re: [blfs-dev] Is Java AWT peer needed for GCC java?

2014-07-01 Thread akhiezer
> Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:51:09 +0200 > From: Pierre Labastie > To: blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org > 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

Re: [blfs-dev] Is Java AWT peer needed for GCC java?

2014-07-01 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 01/07/2014 08:26, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : DJ Lucas wrote: On June 30, 2014 2:42:58 PM CDT, Bruce Dubbs 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. > Silly argument, but strictly for arg

Re: [blfs-dev] Is Java AWT peer needed for GCC java?

2014-06-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: On June 30, 2014 2:42:58 PM CDT, Bruce Dubbs 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. > Silly argument, but strictly for arguments sake, it's the only path > to build j

Re: [blfs-dev] Is Java AWT peer needed for GCC java?

2014-06-30 Thread DJ Lucas
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 subse

Re: [blfs-dev] Is Java AWT peer needed for GCC java?

2014-06-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: Hi, There is something I need to ask about GCC-Java: In order to have a more conform JVM, one needs an AWT (abstract window toolkit) peer, which provides an interface between the AWT and a real window system. As far as I understand, the only functional AWT peers available

[blfs-dev] Is Java AWT peer needed for GCC java?

2014-06-30 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi, There is something I need to ask about GCC-Java: In order to have a more conform JVM, one needs an AWT (abstract window toolkit) peer, which provides an interface between the AWT and a real window system. As far as I understand, the only functional AWT peers available under GCC are gtk and qt.