Re: wip/jdk16 revival

[Francois Tigeot <ftigeot%wolfpond.org@localhost>]

Hi!

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:37:19AM +0000, Chris Wareham wrote:
> 
> Firstly, a thank you for reviving the wip JDK packages. I use wip/jdk16
> on a daily basis at work, and much prefer it to running the Linux
> binaries under emulation.

You're welcome. I was running an ancient jdk 1.4 binary in a VM and this
was becoming really painful...

> I have attached a patch that fixes one issue in the Makefile, and also

Committed, thanks.

> comments out the use of GCC from pkgsrc. I have been running a JDK
> built with the native GCC from NetBSD 5.1 without problem, so for at
> least that version of NetBSD I don't think the pkgsrc GCC is necessary.

I have removed the same code from jdk15; the stock compiler was fine on
both NetBSD 4 and 5.

Howewer in this case, it was added in revision 1.15 of the Makefile by
noud4@ when he revived wip/jdk16.

Noud, is there any reason you added this code ?

-- 
Francois Tigeot

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