Re: [Java-gnome-developer] [ java-gnome-Bugs-889277 ] Should build using only GCJ

[Luca De R. <pie...@li...>]

Il lun, 2004-02-02 alle 22:15, SourceForge.net ha scritto:

> The GCJ package (part of GCC and included on most linux
> distros) can compile and execute standard java byte
> codes, that is, it includes the ability to compile Java
> sources to *.class files and run then. Besides it
> includes jar and other standard command-line tools from
> Sun Java2 SDK.
> 
> So it should be possible to compile java-gnome using
> just GCJ, without the need for a Java2 SDK, which is
> best suited for free-software operating systems. This
> does not imply generating native code which depends on
> libgcj. The generated class files could be run on Sun
> Java2 SDK or Kaffe.
> 
> Actually Red Hat uses GCJ to compile Tomcat, Ant,
> PostgreSQL JDBC Driver, Eclipse and other Java-related
> apps included on RHEL3
I agree. We should only add a --without-jdk-compile or such option.
Could it find a place in the 0.8.3 release?
-- 
Luca De Rugeriis <pie...@li...>