From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 14:31:51 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/classpath: drop package In-Reply-To: <20200302100146.74261-1-james.hilliard1@gmail.com> References: <20200302100146.74261-1-james.hilliard1@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20200302143151.19685f30@windsurf.home> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 03:01:46 -0700 James Hilliard 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 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