From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 510 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2003 18:09:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact eclipse-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: eclipse-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 500 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2003 18:09:21 -0000 To: Marcos Dione Cc: eclipse@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: cannot build from srpm. References: <20030812115856.GD2137@sexy> <8765l2yik1.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20030812133643.GE2137@sexy> <87smo6x2nu.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20030812141356.GF2137@sexy> From: Tom Tromey Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com X-Attribution: Tom X-Zippy: YOU PICKED KARL MALDEN'S NOSE!! Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:09:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20030812141356.GF2137@sexy> Message-ID: <87znievjpj.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-q3/txt/msg00057.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Marcos" == Marcos Dione writes: Marcos> 'ant' patches? isn't gcj the patched one? or are both? I downloaded Marcos> the srpm's (for ant and gcc-ssa) and I don't see anything big done to Marcos> ant, but I see several patches (which I don't understand as I'm not Marcos> familiar to gcj). hmmm, may be it's too big the changes to port it to Marcos> debian :( gcj isn't perfect; there are bugs in the front end and missing packages and classes. So sometimes we have to patch programs like ant to work around this. So, there are patches in ant to make it work, but also patches in gcj to make it possible to compile eclipse with it. Tom