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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 02:19:30PM -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Speaking of which, Ubuntu packages Eclipse compiled with GCJ and using 
> free class library. This is very brittle stuff, but it can be done.

It can be done, same for lots of java packages. Fedora/RedHat has been
doing that for a long time. The problem is that for most of these the
build system doesn't support it out of the box, so you have to
essentially write your own build system (e.g. ant doesn't allow
bootstrapping with gcj, but Fedora ships with a gcj built ant).

> Eric Sandall wrote:
> 
> >Also, now a package that may be 'free' (e.g. eclipse) would have to go
> >in z-rejected, or you could have a broken package (eclipse would
> >install, but not run).
> >  
> >
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