libjava grievances

Wed Sep 22 23:42:00 GMT 1999

Tom Tromey once stated:
=>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua R Poulson <jrp@pun.org> writes:
=
=>> Why is this not a part of the full gcc-2.05.1 build yet? gcj is...
=Joshua> Political reasons with respect to GPL versus LPGL.
=
=Actually, that didn't come up at all. It's more that, by requiring
=copyright assignment, Cygnus is treated specially compared to other
=companies working on gcc.
=
=Note that libgcj is a GNU package now, however. I'm not sure I
=understand how we can be a GNU package but not be integrated into gcc
=(another GNU package), but there you have it.
Ok, why can't it be made "pluggable" into the gcc-2.95.1 build tree?
The gcc's toplevel files are already aware of it...
	-mi