Bruno Haible - [PATCH] documenting the need for ecj.jar (original) (raw)

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• From: Bruno Haible
• To: tromey at redhat dot com
• Cc: Andrew Haley , gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
• Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:43:43 +0100
• Subject: [PATCH] documenting the need for ecj.jar
• References: 200702071626.55900.bruno@clisp.org 200702071913.38913.bruno@clisp.org m3abzpzqel.fsf@localhost.localdomain

Tom Tromey wrote:

Bruno> A first mention of contrib/download_ecj should probably be made in the Bruno> section "Tools/packages necessary for building GCC" ?

Sounds good!

Here is a proposed patch to that effect.

2007-02-17 Bruno Haible bruno@clisp.org

* doc/install.texi (Prerequisites): Mention ecj.jar and how to
download it.

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Necessary to build libgcj, the GCJ runtime.

• @item @file{ecj.jar}
• Necessary to build the Java front-end of @command{gcj}. @file{ecj.jar}
• should contain the Eclipse Java compiler, modified with a GCC-specific
• entry point. You can download a suitable jar by running the script
• @command{contrib/download_ecj}.
• @c We don't mention the URL @uref{ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/} here
• @c because after the user downloads ecj.jar to an arbitrary location in
• @c his filesystem he 1. needs to copy it to the installation directory
• @c and 2. to specify the --with-ecj-jar option. contrib/download_ecj is
• @c much simpler to use.
• @end table