GCC SC request about ecj

[Joe Buck]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:59:58AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> Richard stallman write last night:
> 
>      I agree to the use of the Eclipse front end to generate
>      Java byte codes.
> 
> Note this does not mean importing Eclispe code into the gcc source or
> release tree.  We need to decide on a practical way to have people
> grab a compatible version of ecj.

Treat it like GMP, I guess; it's an external dependency.  Tell people
where to get it; have configure test for its presence and refuse to build
any dependencies if it isn't found.