RFC: Only enable NIO2 by default when building with IcedTea

[Mark Wielaard]

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 14:27 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> The only thing necessary should be the GCCMain one that is being kept up
> to date by Tom in the rhug repository:
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/eclipse-gcj/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/batch/GCCMain.java?cvsroot=rhug
> Latest version is r34_1, haven't yet tried if it also applies to 3.4.2.
> 
> If that works out then it would be good to update the recommended
> version of ecj-latest.jar that the gcc/contrib/download_ecj grabs so
> that future versions (4.4?) of gcc will come with it.

Alternatively, someone might want to look into the Summer Of Code work
from Dalibor to integrate the openjdk javac (or actually any JSR 199
compliant byte code compiler):
http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2007-gcc/downloads/detail?name=Dalibor_Topic.tar.gz
The eclipse-gcj-pretty/README.GSOC gives a nice summary of the work.

Cheers,

Mark