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Re: {Spam?} Re: [RFT/RFA] bashjar patch
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.
The bootstrapping problem could be handled by distributing the jar
program in .jar format together with GCC. This would be small, and you
could then run it (using the system classes as unpackaged .class files)
to make the libgcj-4.2.0.jar archive.
The problem is that AFAIK nobody stepped out and offered nothing more
than a vague plan to do this. Nobody pointed out a free jar program
written in Java. Therefore, so far we're stuck with bashjar. While I
like the idea, and I think it covers the cross compilation case very
well, I would not be so dismayed if it disappeared in 4.3. On the other
hand I'm not too confident that anybody will do anything in this
direction, no matter if paid or as a volunteer.
Paolo