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Re: Fwd: gcj can not import packages
- From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado at elephly dot net>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: bill dot chatfield at yahoo dot com, 'mohan NMH' <mohan dot nmh2 at gmail dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:28:50 +0100
- Subject: Re: Fwd: gcj can not import packages
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Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> writes:
> On 16/01/17 22:58, Bill Chatfield via java wrote:
>
>> From the link, it looks like it would be correct to say that gcj is
>> the *only* open source way to bootstrap OpenJDK.
>
> OpenJDK can bootstrap itself.
It can bootstrap only with pre-built binaries, though. The only route
that doesn’t involve these binaries is by using GCJ.
I would be happy to be shown that this is a misunderstanding.
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