Alan Barrett wrote:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Christos Zoulas wrote:| I never understood why you need Java to build Java Because the compiler is written in java and the runtime needs to have a the compiled java code to run.I have a prejudice against third party binaries. Is there a way of building a very old version of java using only a C or C++ compiler, and then use the very old version of java to build a not-quite-so-old version of java, etc.?
Not that I'm aware, but you're welcome to write your own javac implementation and hook that into the build.