From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6397 invoked by alias); 6 May 2009 20:43:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 6350 invoked by uid 22791); 6 May 2009 20:43:44 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (HELO yx-out-1718.google.com) (74.125.44.156) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 May 2009 20:43:38 +0000 Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 36so177659yxh.26 for ; Wed, 06 May 2009 13:43:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.171.13 with SMTP id t13mr2173600ane.1.1241642613660; Wed, 06 May 2009 13:43:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.103? (CPE-65-26-197-247.wi.res.rr.com [65.26.197.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b32sm11135ana.0.2009.05.06.13.43.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 06 May 2009 13:43:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A020407.2090306@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 20:43:00 -0000 From: Sal User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: java@gcc.gnu.org Subject: GCJ with OpenJDK Java API instead of GNU Classpath Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact java-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2009-05/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 Forgive me if this is a silly question - but I wanted to ping the list before spending any time/effort here. Grabbing GCJ's standard source releases, one can see that GNU classpath is integrated. I've actually used classpath a lot and its a very stable API for me. However - given recent events, particularly the 'freeing' of Java sources by Sun - is it a good idea to attempt to use Sun's 'official' Java API sources instead? This would give the option of maximum Java API compatibility but also giving the ability to precompile native code using GCJ (which you cant do with OpenJDK afaik) So my questions: - Has anyone already attempted building the OpenJDK java sources with GCJ/and/or tried to swap out classpath for those classes? - if not are people interested in going down this path? I am willing to put some efforts here. - Are there licensing issues with linking OpenJDK to other code via GCJ? From what I remember 'linking' is a touchy area with some FOSS licenses. Thanks much in advance for any tips!! - Sal