Is bootstripping with gcj and classpath really nesserary?

Petteri Räty betelgeuse at gentoo.org
Thu Jun 21 23:37:12 PDT 2007


Yuhong Bao kirjoitti:
>> by accident, that IcedTea contained binary components from the unfree
>> JDK that was used to bootstrap it.  That would be a very Bad Thing.
> 
> That is why the result of the unfree build is used to build again, 
> just to ensure this won't happen.
> 

That would accomplish what? The unfree build could still leak those
bits. It's not likely of course.

Regards,
Petteri

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