Robert Schuster wrote: > >> Okay this is something that has confused me. classpath seems to have a > >> dependency on jamvm, but jamvm seems to have a dependency on > >> classpath. How is this not circular? > >> > > > > It is circular. Such is life with Java (OpenJDK also needs a JDK to > > compile FWIW). To bootstrap, you can use gcj/gij to run ecj. Many > > distros (e.g. debian) ship with a native version of ecj that runs > > using gcj. > The completely self-hosting GNU Classpath and Cacao/JamVM recipes in > OpenEmbedded do exactly that: > > jikes 1.21 -> classpath 0.93 -> cacao 0.98 or jamvm 1.5.0 -> ecj -> > classpath 0.9x (x >= 5) -> cacao 0.98+hg20071001 (or newer) This is completely bonkers. We need to have a working java 1.5 compiler without a dependency on a JVM. -- Chris Burdess
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