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Re: [PATCH, libjava/classpath]: Fix overriding recipe for target 'gjdoc' build warning
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Andrew Hughes <gnu dot andrew at redhat dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>, Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:08:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH, libjava/classpath]: Fix overriding recipe for target 'gjdoc' build warning
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On 08/20/2015 05:03 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> The issue is that we're still supporting a version of OpenJDK/IcedTea where
> there is no previous version (6).
Surely OpenJDK 6 can build itself. And in the unlikely event of an
entirely new architecture which has No OpenJDK we'd have to grab an
old GCJ and build it with that.
If GCJ is included as part of GCC but is not maintained and tested, it
will soon rot. That isn't an option IMO.
Andrew.