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Re: Merge checked in
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Marco Trudel <mtrudel at gmx dot ch>
- Cc: tromey at redhat dot com, GCC Java <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 20:49:58 +0000
- Subject: Re: Merge checked in
- References: <m3vejgrr7s.fsf@localhost.localdomain> <45A3FE01.1060902@gmx.ch>
Marco Trudel writes:
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> > Hi everybody.
> >
> > I've checked the big gcj-eclipse branch merge into svn trunk.
> > This brings in many changes -- we now use a version of the Eclipse
> > compiler to process .java files; we removed jv-scan and gcjh
> > (replacing the latter with gjavah); we now support all 1.5 language
> > and runtime features.
>
> Cool! Some small questions to that:
> - Will the development now continue on the trunk or on the gcj-eclipse
> branch and be merged from time to time?
The branch is dead.
> - What classpath version is used? Was 0.93 imported or a newer
> subversion checkout?
> - What's the state of the current Java 1.5 library? The latest I heard
> was that the 1.4 library is pretty complete (but I didn't keep in touch).
>
> > For best results you will want to download an 'ecj' jar. We've set
> > things up so that if there is an ecj.jar in the top level source tree,
> > then the build will install this jar and a usable 'ecj1' executable
> > that uses it.
>
> What is it needed for? What happens without it?
You can't compile any Java source.
Andrew.