Breaking out gcc-ecj45 from lang/gcc{,46,47,48}

[Jung-uk Kim]

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On 2013-01-15 19:30:38 -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On 2013-01-15 04:18:54 -0500, Alex Dupre wrote:
>> Gerald Pfeifer ha scritto:
>>> to address ports/175072 I finally went ahead with an old plan
>>> of mine and broke the binary ecj.jar that is used to build the
>>> Java frontend for our GCC 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8 ports out into a
>>> separate port: lang/gcc-ecj45.
> 
>> Why not using/updating the java/eclipse-ecj port?
> 
> No, we can't.  ecj-*.jar from ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/ are 
> modified versions of ECJ:
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2007-02/msg01497.html
> 
> In other words, you cannot use ordinary ECJ with GCJ.  In fact,
> there was no ECJ 4.5 release, AFAIK.

BTW, some people may think java/eclipse-ecj is outdated but it is not
true.  Actually, Eclipse 3.8.1 and 4.2.1 have exactly same ecj.jar,
built from the same source.

Jung-uk Kim
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