libjava grievances

Mikhail Teterin mi@aldan.algebra.com
Wed Sep 22 23:42:00 GMT 1999


Tom Tromey once stated:

=>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua R Poulson <jrp@pun.org> writes:
=
=>> Why is this not a part of the full gcc-2.05.1 build yet? gcj is...
=Joshua> Political reasons with respect to GPL versus LPGL.
=
=Actually, that  didn't come  up at  all. It's  more that,  by requiring
=copyright  assignment, Cygnus  is treated  specially compared  to other
=companies working on gcc.
=
=Note  that  libgcj is  a  GNU  package now,  however.  I'm  not sure  I
=understand how we can  be a GNU package but not  be integrated into gcc
=(another GNU package), but there you have it.

Ok, why can't it be made "pluggable" into the gcc-2.95.1 build tree?
The gcc's toplevel files are already aware of it...

	-mi


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