On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Mary Ellen Foster wrote: > What's the benefit of doing the GCJ AOT-compilation steps as defined > in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/GCJGuidelines? Doesn't > everyone just use OpenJDK these days? It adds a bunch of extra stuff > to every Java spec file and makes all java packages arch-specific > instead of noarch, which always feels a bit weird ... > > MEF > Ah the famous topic :) I think the latest explanation for the AOT bits were that they are still needed in ppc* architectures because openjdk is still slow on those machines. I don't know if this has changed since. But from F-13 on, I expect that we will drop the AOT bit requirement since ppc* won't be primary architectures anymore. Orcan -- fedora-devel-java-list mailing list fedora-devel-java-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-java-list
