jar alternative for zero builds?

[Matthias Klose]

Andrew Haley schrieb:
> 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?

- gjar isn't available on alpha-linux
- gjar throws an exception building the final rt.jar
- gjar is still slower than fastjar (I don't care for archs which are fast
  enough, but it's a win for arm or m68k).

Matthias