From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 100935 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2017 20:29:12 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 100883 invoked by uid 89); 18 Jan 2017 20:29:11 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Bill, H*Ad:D*yahoo.com X-HELO: sender163-mail.zoho.com Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com (HELO sender163-mail.zoho.com) (74.201.84.163) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:29:01 +0000 Received: from localhost (x4d0c9600.dyn.telefonica.de [77.12.150.0]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1484771335511468.75214471758557; Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:28:55 -0800 (PST) References: <9335b6e8-ed7f-1e8d-4022-656da4681770@redhat.com> <59a501d2701f$b1bb1290$153137b0$@yahoo.com> <87ziiq937c.fsf@elephly.net> <59dc01d2704c$0d4ea910$27ebfb30$@yahoo.com> User-agent: mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.1.1 From: Ricardo Wurmus To: Andrew Haley Cc: bill.chatfield@yahoo.com, 'mohan NMH' , java@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Fwd: gcj can not import packages In-reply-to: Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:29:00 -0000 Message-ID: <878tq86rjx.fsf@elephly.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-01/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 Andrew Haley writes: > On 16/01/17 22:58, Bill Chatfield via java wrote: > >> From the link, it looks like it would be correct to say that gcj is >> the *only* open source way to bootstrap OpenJDK. > > OpenJDK can bootstrap itself. It can bootstrap only with pre-built binaries, though. The only route that doesn’t involve these binaries is by using GCJ. I would be happy to be shown that this is a misunderstanding. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net