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  • From: "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] SMGL as GNU-certified Free(R)(TM) Distro?
  • Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:43:54 +0100

Arwed von Merkatz wrote :

> 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).
>
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We should take pointers from that...

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