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Re: [wwwdocs] My GCC 4.2 changes
On 7/5/06, Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch> wrote:
we need at the very least an URL with installation instructions. And
also, do we reaaally want to advertise fastjar? From some people's
experience, it is quite bitrotted and a pain to install.
It was wedded to the GCC build machinery and so it didn't
work initially as a standalone programme. However, Richard
Guenther (AFAICT) patched it to make it work and the last
I tried, it configured, installed and built rather painlessly on an
i686-pc-linux box.
The jar script is portable (thanks Ralf) and quite fast, and almost
everybody has zip/unzip installed. In the future hopefully we'll be
For minimal UNIX-like environments like MSYS
(http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml), zip and unzip don't come
installed out-of-the box.
using the jar program from Classpath tools, and it will be bundled in
the GCC tarball just like fastjar used to be.
Agreed. Everything else is an interim solution till we get around
to doing this.
Thanks,
Ranjit.
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