[OpenIndiana-discuss] [discuss] Anyone use gcj?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Peter Tribble wrote:

> Just as a question: does anyone actually use gcj?
>
> I don't think I ever have, at least.
>
> One reason for the questions is that a gcc4.7.2 build is ~1G in size,
> half that is java support. So if I could just forget about that completely
> that saves an awful lot of space.
>
> (I don't think java is enabled in the gcc on either Solaris or OI, and
> I haven't seen any signs that it's been missed, but I think it's
> worth asking the question.)

I have it enabled in my own private GCC build under Solaris and OI and 
it appears to work.  The only purpose was to test Autoconf since I am 
not a Java developer but want Autotools to work as well as possible 
under Solaris and OI.  For some reason, Autoconf tests want the 
Eclipse Java engine as well (to run Java VM code) and I did not quite 
get that working right yet (probably a minor config problem).

I would certainly agree that GNU Java is not needed in a standard 
build.  It is not included with Ubuntu Linux's GCC.

Bob
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