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Re: {Spam?} Re: [RFT/RFA] bashjar patch

Paolo Bonzini writes:
 > 
 > > 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.

I guess that's possible for native builds.
 
 > 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.

Already done.  It's part of Classpath, but it's not yet in libgcj.

Andrew.
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