From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12185 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2017 20:40:00 -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 12168 invoked by uid 89); 18 Jan 2017 20:39:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=18012017, aph@redhat.com, Ricardo, Chatfield X-HELO: einhorn.in-berlin.de Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de (HELO einhorn.in-berlin.de) (192.109.42.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:39:58 +0000 X-Envelope-From: doko@ubuntu.com Received: from [192.168.178.26] (ip5f5af7ce.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de [95.90.247.206]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-8+deb8u1) with ESMTP id v0IKdp2o012673 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:39:51 +0100 Subject: Re: Fwd: gcj can not import packages To: Ricardo Wurmus , Andrew Haley References: <9335b6e8-ed7f-1e8d-4022-656da4681770@redhat.com> <59a501d2701f$b1bb1290$153137b0$@yahoo.com> <87ziiq937c.fsf@elephly.net> <59dc01d2704c$0d4ea910$27ebfb30$@yahoo.com> <878tq86rjx.fsf@elephly.net> Cc: bill.chatfield@yahoo.com, "'mohan NMH'" , java@gcc.gnu.org From: Matthias Klose Message-ID: <92b25477-ed9d-f35e-a9b4-2cb90e425cbd@ubuntu.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:40:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <878tq86rjx.fsf@elephly.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-01/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On 18.01.2017 21:28, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > 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. yes, you need some trusted binaries. For example, there are various Linux distributions which provide these binaries. And even if you want to build for a target that doesn't have binaries, you can first build a native openjdk on your build platform, and then cross-build for your target. I built several Linux architectures this way ... Matthias