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Re: [RFC/RFA] fallback to bourne shell implementation of jar
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
- To: Paolo Bonzini <paolo dot bonzini at lu dot unisi dot ch>
- Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 12:44:06 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] fallback to bourne shell implementation of jar
- References: <4433C8DD.40204@lu.unisi.ch>
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This patch, bootstrapped on i686-pc-linux and tested with "make check" and
> "make src.zip" too, provides a fallback implementation of jar written in sh.
> This implementation also supports the fastjar extension "-@".
Nice!
> Shortly speaking, the rationale for this patch is that if you pick a random
> machine, jar will only be installed if someone already had a JDK installed. I
> think that many people, including those that only want to have free software
> on their machine, do *not* have jar installed before they attempt to install
> gcj, and will be frustrated from having to install another tool. On the other
> hand, they probably do have InfoZIP installed and this provides enough
> functionality to implement jar on top of it.
When this does in, would you mind adding a note to install.texi to that
end, noting that either jar or unzip are a prerequisite to build libjava?
Gerald