From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/classpath: drop package
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:31:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200302143151.19685f30@windsurf.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200302100146.74261-1-james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 03:01:46 -0700
James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com> wrote:
> This package has been abandoned by upstream since 2016 and has not
> had a release since 2012. In addition the GNU Compiler for Java
> that classpath was written to be used with has been removed as of
> GCC 7.
>
> It is no longer feasible to support classpath as it requires a java
> compiler capable of producing java 1.5 compatible bytecode which is
> not possible on hosts with a recent java compiler.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
package/jamvm is using classpath, so you can't remove classpath just
like that, without taking into account the presence of jamvm.
Best regards,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-02 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-02 10:01 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/classpath: drop package James Hilliard
2020-03-02 13:31 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2020-03-02 13:44 ` James Hilliard
2020-03-02 13:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2020-03-02 17:02 ` Thomas De Schampheleire
2020-03-03 22:59 ` Peter Korsgaard
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