feedback on --enable-java-home

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Matthias,

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 15:24 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Has java-gcj-compat has to provide this file on it's own. I didn't check
> recently if PR32864 is still present in 4.4, but then having the gcj keytool
> generating a cacerts which is incompatible with the openjdk one would be bad. If
> these are compatible, then a symlink to the cacerts distributed by the distro
> would be fine.

Sun uses an undocumented keystore format (well, it is published now,
since they published their code under the GPL). Currently GNU Classpath
doesn't support that format. Although code has been written [1] and
could now probably be imported if someone wanted. Previously we were
worried because it was reverse engineered, but now that they have
published the algorithm themselves under the GPL through OpenJDK that
worry should no longer be there. If someone wants to import it then let
me know and I ping FSF legal about it.

Cheers,

Mark

[1] by Casey Marshall: http://www.metastatic.org/source/JKS.html