From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1182 invoked by alias); 13 Mar 2007 10:07:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 1108 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Mar 2007 10:07:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from gbenson.demon.co.uk (HELO gbenson.demon.co.uk) (80.177.220.214) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:07:19 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:07:00 -0000 From: Gary Benson To: java-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Patch: FYI: disable XML service files Message-ID: <20070313100716.GB4136@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: java-patches@gcc.gnu.org References: <20070312095509.GA4060@redhat.com> <17909.20519.850202.641522@zebedee.pink> <20070312154430.GB4060@redhat.com> <17909.30469.286085.85361@zebedee.pink> <20070312165031.GC4060@redhat.com> <17909.35102.75816.154604@zebedee.pink> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17909.35102.75816.154604@zebedee.pink> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact java-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q1/txt/msg00679.txt.bz2 Andrew Haley wrote: > Gary Benson writes: > > Andrew Haley wrote: > > > Gary Benson writes: > > > > However, making xerces work in the classpath like this will > > > > mean a whole load of things that have both xml-commons-apis > > > > and xerces in the classpath but not endorsed (eg most > > > > everything in Fedora) will now be running xerces with > > > > libgcj's javax.xml, > > > > > > Which, unless I am very much mistaken, is what has always > > > happened. > > > > No. Prior to the service files being removed the only way to get > > xerces to be used was to endorse it. Until now everything has > > been using libgcj for both the interface and the implementation. > > No, that is certainly not true. It is true in the sense that immediately prior to the service files being removed the only way to get xerces to be used was to endorse it. Which is the sense I meant it. > See my prior postings in this thread, and in particular the test > using gcj Version 4.2. Until this latest classpath import, we > haven't been using the service files in libgcj at all, so if Xerces > was in the classpath we used it. Ok, this makes me a lot happier about this patch going into Fedora. Cheers, Gary