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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Chris Brien <cbrien AT sourcemage.org>
  • Cc: Grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] j2sdk
  • Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 18:25:21 -0000

No. The gnu java compiler is not complete enough yet. Pretty much any
compiler worth its salt will be written in it's own language.

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 12:38, Chris Brien wrote:
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> On Friday 13 June 2003 3:54 pm, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> > >Question: Why do we download a bin file if we are compiling
> > > from source?
> >
> > Java is kind of self-hosting, you need to have Java to build Java.
>
> Can't this be done using gcj?
> I don't like the idea of using a binary version to compile a source
> version.
> It's bad enough with gcc. And gcc's non-existent Ada support which requires
> you to already have it....
>
> It would be nice if we could avoid using the binary, since it makes it
> impossible to compile java on anything other than i386.
>
> Chris
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