GCJ 4.1 and OpenOffice.org

[Achilleus Mantzios]

O Panagiotis Astithas έγραψε στις Mar 10, 2006 :

> Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> > O NAKATA Maho ?????? ???? Mar 10, 2006 :
> > 
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I believe gcj is now one of the usable Java implementation,
> >> however there are some small (but tedious) issues must be solved to 
> >> check in to FBSD ports cvs repo.
> >> I made some ports or updates of ports so that we can at least compile a
> >> package using Java; OpenOffice.org. I believe with appropreate wrapper,
> >> we can add gnugcj as _JAVA_VENDOR_LIST in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.java.mk.
> >> then we can use/comple Java applications without bootstrapping java/jdk14
> >> etc.
> >>
> >> You can download ports skeleton at:
> >> ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/misc/gcj+ooo.20060310.tar.bz2
> >> gcj+ooo.20060310.tar.bz2 : md5sum  7d4c2aedb775b5058765b40e5c6ed378  
> >>
> >> Install instruction:
> >> 1. gmake-devel ... workaround for installation of gcc41
> >> 2. gcc41-with_gcj ... build gcc with gcj
> >> 3. gjdoc ... javadoc alternative 
> >> 4. openoffice.org-2.0-devel make with option -DWITH_GNUGCJ
> >>
> >> Comments are welcome.
> >> thanks,
> 
> So this is essentially a (collection of) tweaked gcc41 port(s) that 
> avoids the gmake bug that hoses systems with 1GB RAM? If so I'd love to 
> try this, as I've been wanting to do the same for a while.
> 
> > This is really cool.
> > I also heard of harmony.
> > Whats the difference between ASF's harmony and GCJ?
> > It would be very good for all of us if these alternatives
> > came into a robust shape.
> 
> Harmony is not as mature as gcj+classpath is right now, in both the VM 
> and class library parts. It has a very bright potential though. One of 
> the nice things about us is that the current VM effort (JCHEVM) is a 
> strip down version of ports/java/jc, by our very own archie.
> 
> The Harmony class library is currently not quite functional with the 
> JCHEVM, but that is being worked on. It doesn't support FreeBSD at the 
> moment, but that will undoubtedly change. I have a (rather old) WIP that 
> I hope to finish sometime.

Whats WIP?
Wikipedia's closest was Work-in-Progress, with Web Information Platform
as second.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Panagiotis
> 

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-Achilleus