building gcc against eclipse?

Tue Nov 10 10:00:00 GMT 2009

Jack Howarth wrote:
> In fink, we have been building the gcj ecj1 support by
> copying the ecj-latest.jar file from ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java
> into the top level of the gcc source directory. I would like to try
> building gcc on darwin with the eclipse compiler instead. We have
> a fink ecj package which provides...
>> /.
> /sw
> /sw/bin
> /sw/bin/ecj
> /sw/share
> /sw/share/doc
> /sw/share/doc/ecj
> /sw/share/doc/ecj/about.html
> /sw/share/java
> /sw/share/java/ecj
> /sw/share/java/ecj/ecj.jar
>> How exactly does one build the gcj against this ecj compiler? 
> Would creating a symlink in the toplevel gcc directory to
> /sw/share/java/ecj/ecj.jar be sufficient to cause the installed
> eclipse compiler to be used for ecj1?

We configure for Fedora with --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar
You don't have to copy that jar into the toplev of srcdir.
Andrew.