Re: Patch: Remove fastjar

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Richard Guenther writes:
 > On 4/1/06, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
 > > Tom Tromey wrote:
 > >
 > > > fastjar doesn't have a home yet.  It was rejected from savannah
 > > > because fastjar.texi is GPL and not GFDL.
 > >
 > > Thanks for trying.  I didn't realize savannah had that requirement.
 > >
 > > > I didn't include the generated diffs or the diff which actually
 > > > removes the fastjar directory.
 > > >
 > > > Built on x86 FC4.  Ok for trunk?
 > >
 > > Yes.
 > >
 > > I've read through the remainder of the thread, and see that various
 > > people have various suggestions/criticisms.  However, removing fastjar
 > > isn't up for debate; the decision has been made, and we have to live
 > > with it.
 > 
 > Now, the fastjar removal is a desaster.  Getting the "package" from
 > savannah (there's only a CVS checkout possible at the moment) gives
 > you an unbuildable source tree which has gcc dependencies all over
 > the place and so usual 10 minutes fiddling with the makefiles
 > didn't result in a buildable fastjar package.  This suggests that
 > fastjar is really not a separate package from gcc.  (It requires
 > libiberty, its documentation requires all sorts of gcc texi magic
 > which I couldn't get right

It ought to be possible to build libgcj.jar with Info-ZIP, but I'm not
sure that having an external dependency on that is any better than
having a dependency on fastjar.

Andrew.