jar alternative for zero builds?

[Andrew Haley]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> when building openjdk/icedtea for zero arch, a lot of the time is spent building
> jar files using the interpreted jar. it would be nice if fastjar would support
> the @<file> option and icedtea could be configured to use this fastjar.
> 
> cc'ing the fastjar upstream maintainer, hint, hint, ...

What's the point?  Why not use gjar?

Andrew.