Fwd: gcj can not import packages

Wed Jan 18 20:40:00 GMT 2017

On 18.01.2017 21:28, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> 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 doesnâ€™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