Re: building gcj on OS X (also AWT)

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "John" == John Gabriele <john3g@bestweb.net> writes:

John> Hmm... so, this "GUI Branch" (containing what there is of the
John> AWT/Swing implementation) is separate from GCJ?

John> I've read that GCJ and Classpath are now working together, so
John> I'd expect the newest AWT/Swing stuff to come from either the
John> GCJ site, or else the Classpath site
John> http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/downloads/downloads.html
John> ?

The GUI branch is a separate line of development in the cvs repository
on gcc.gnu.org.  Once a month or so, Graydon merges this branch into
the main line of development.  Then folks merge this over to
Classpath.

So, it is definitely part of gcj and it regularly shows up in
Classpath.  It is done separately just so that the developers working
on it can follow somewhat relaxed rules for their day-to-day
development.  E.g., the GUI branch might not build at any given
moment, since sometimes it is convenient to check in non-working code
in order to share if more efficiently.  The merges to trunk are always
done at points where things build and work, though.

John> Is Fedora 2 currently the distro with the most up-to-date
John> Java/GCJ/AWT/Swing support?

I don't know, since I don't know what all the other distros do.  If
you want the most up-to-date environment you will have to build your
own gcj, regardless of distro.

Tom