Jesse Keating wrote: > We've had openjdk for a bit now, and even on ppc. Still a number of > things require gcj which means we wind up with a number of java runtimes > being installed on people's systems (and hogging space on the media). > > $ sudo repoquery --whatrequires libgcj > ecj-1:3.4.2-4.fc11.x86_64 > kawa-1:1.9.1-8.fc11.x86_64 > gcc-java-0:4.4.0-0.34.x86_64 > sinjdoc-0:0.5-8.fc11.x86_64 > libgcj-src-0:4.4.0-0.34.x86_64 > java-1.5.0-gcj-0:1.5.0.0-25.fc11.x86_64 > libgcj-devel-0:4.4.0-0.34.i586 > libgcj-devel-0:4.4.0-0.34.x86_64 > > This is a bit hard to capture all the things that require gcj and > wouldn't be satisfied by openjdk. Is there a plan to move some/all of > these to openjdk, will there ever be a point where on x86/ppc we can > just have openjdk as the JRE and leave gcj as an optional install? Well, all the gcj packages obviously require libgcj. These are: > gcc-java-0:4.4.0-0.34.x86_64 > libgcj-src-0:4.4.0-0.34.x86_64 > java-1.5.0-gcj-0:1.5.0.0-25.fc11.x86_64 > libgcj-devel-0:4.4.0-0.34.i586 > libgcj-devel-0:4.4.0-0.34.x86_64 The ecj package is a gcj-accelerated version of javac: > ecj-1:3.4.2-4.fc11.x86_64 kawa is a gcj-based LISP implementation: > kawa-1:1.9.1-8.fc11.x86_64 sinjdoc is a gij-based version of javadoc: > sinjdoc-0:0.5-8.fc11.x86_64 OpenJDK, while technically correct, is not really fast enough to use on most non-x86 systems. We are working as fast as we can to get OpenJDK JIT-compiling working on PPC systems. Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
