--with-openjdk bootstrap

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 14:02 Sun 01 Aug     , DJ Lucas wrote:
> On 08/01/2010 12:57 PM, DJ Lucas wrote:
> > On 08/01/2010 10:29 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> >> I don't really see why you want to use the --with-openjdk flag to
> >> begin with.
> > 
> > Simplicity is the goal.  Rather than rebuilding gcc (to include gcj),
> > then ecj, gcj-compat, the extra jars, etc., one download is provided to
> > bootstrap the build.  Simply drop the extracted tarball into /opt, add
> > the bin dir to path, and they are off and running, and it is easily
> > removed after they are done with it.
> > 
> > I just figured I'd ask first before duplicating work that is already
> > done (and am glad that I did).  I'm going to take a look at the
> > --with-gcj-home option first,
> 
> After toying with this for about 5 minutes, I'm not going to any longer.
>  It is simply not correct for my intended goal.  Configure completes,
> but it's looking for all the gcj pieces, the five jars, etc., which I
> have in place.  There's no way around the gij check.
> 

Ok, guess it still needs a lot of work then :-(

> Thanks again.
> 
> -- DJ Lucas
> 
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