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Re: Apps. using Sun Java in Ubuntu, howto use them with gij ?
Hi all,
This thread has raised an issue that has been at the back of my mind
for a while now, and I'd just like to get a feel for what's being done
about it if anything.
With the imminent GPL'ing of Sun's JDK, does is not make sense to
support their class libraries together with GCJ? I am aware that there
are issues with native method dependencies on the Sun JVM that are not
documented, but doesn't the fact that we now have the complete GPL
source of that VM change all that?
The way I see it (and I don't pretend to be too clued up on all this
stuff, just an interested observer), it seems like less work (in the
long and short term) to adapt GCJ to use Sun's JDK than to implement
all that is currently missing from Classpath/libgcj?
Ramon
On 5/6/07, shirish <shirishag75@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/7/07, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "Shirish" == shirish <shirishag75@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Shirish> So here's a brief list I could make using
> Shirish> Galternatives http://www.advogato.org/proj/Galternatives/ (its a
> Shirish> debian product)
>
> Shirish> 2. java_vm :- uses /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java_vm
> Shirish> 3. javaws :- uses /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/javaws
> [...]
>
> I think this just means that your alternatives are set to use the JDK
> rather than gcj. However not all of these alternatives can be
> satisfied by gcj -- e.g., nobody has written pack200 for Classpath
> yet.
>
> Shirish> Also there seems to be no gij developer/maintainer for
> Shirish> ubuntu?
>
> Matthias Klose ("doko") packages this stuff for Ubuntu.
>
> Tom
>
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i all,
Tom thanx for clearing up stuff, now my question is which of
these 11 alternatives can be satisfied with gij . If there is an easy
howto for people who want to use gij how they should set up stuff
would be a nice start. Please lemme know what I need to find out &
post & would do the same. Cheers !
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Shirish Agarwal
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