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Re: [RFT/RFA] bashjar patch

Paolo Bonzini writes:
 > 
 > > Andrew H. asks on irc why we don't simply use zip in the build.  Is
 > > there an answer to this?  That may be much simpler.
 > 
 > If we want to provide a decent system to build Java programs, we must 
 > provide a jar program to the user.  The aim of this patch is first to 
 > not break GCJ *for the user*, and only secondarily to allow people to 
 > build GCJ without installing a jar program first.

Well, bashjar is the wrong way to solve that problem.  We have all the
libraries we need to handle jarfiles already in libgcj, but we have a
bootstrapping problem.

Andrew.
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