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Re: groan: installation
Adam Megacz writes:
>
> Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
> > Besides, it would introduce a dependency on Java while building gcj,
> > and there is no way that we're going to depend on unfree software if
> > we can avoid it.
>
> This is a red herring; you can always use kaffe and one of the free
> javac's to bootstrap.
And how do you get those? I can see linux, freebsd, and nextstep
binaries for a few architectures on the kaffe web site. Say you were
building gcc on an IA-64? Or, for that matter, a System/390?
Andrew.