Thomas Fitzsimmons writes: > Andrew Haley wrote: > > Thomas Fitzsimmons writes: > > > Sander Hoentjen wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > > > There is a program i would like to package (josm), only it > > > > doesn't compile with gcj, but it does with icedtea. Can this > > > > go into fedora? > > > > > > During the Fedora 8 Features FESCo meeting, the issue of build > > > requiring IcedTea came up. The informal policy decision was > > > that packages may build require IcedTea, but must still run on > > > the base Fedora architectures (i386, x86_64, ppc, ppc64) > > > without requiring external packages. For Fedora 8, that meant > > > packages had to run on ppc/ppc64 libgcj. For Fedora 9, > > > IcedTea's ppc/ppc64 interpreter should suffice. So while > > > ideally the package would build on both, pragmatically I'd say > > > go ahead and build require IcedTea. > > > > I understand that, but it would surely be better in this case to get > > the fix into libgcj. It's not particularly difficult to do, and > > surely we can be allowed the short time it would take to get the fix > > in, and then the package would run everywhere. Sure, it's tempting to > > take the easy road, but in this case it's not hugely difficult to do > > the right thing. > > Yes, I'm working on a fix for GNU Classpath. However, understand > that it does take a non-trivial amount of time to get a libgcj fix > into Fedora, through the GNU Classpath -> gcc HEAD -> Red Hat gcc > branch -> Fedora Rawhide chain -- several days at a minimum. I'd > rather not hold up Sander's progress waiting for the fix to land. OK, that's fair, but it's going to be *really* easy to let things in Classpath slide. I am going to keep on top of this: apart from ppc issues, there are also the secondary architectures ARM, IA-64, and SPARC. I'd like to keep gcj going in good shape until we have a reasonable portability story for OpenJDK. Andrew. -- Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, UK Registered in England and Wales No. 3798903 -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
