jar alternative for zero builds?

[Andrew Haley]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> 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

?  Ok, but bizarre.

> - gjar throws an exception building the final rt.jar

Ah; that I didn't know.  Do you know why?

> - 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).

True enough, but maintaining multiple jar implementations is a pointless
PITA for the Classpath communtiy.

Andrew.