X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F7C1CF9.2010109@towo.net> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:05:45 +0200 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Re: GCJ and ECJ References: <1771325305.327085.1333533349990.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1und1.de> In-Reply-To: <1771325305.327085.1333533349990.JavaMail.open-xchange@email.1und1.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Von: David Rothenberger > > I am having trouble finding an ecj.jar eclipse jar file to get GCJ > going. > > ... > > Many Cygwin packages come with a README file. As I mentioned > previously[1], the one you want is /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/gcc4.README. Not quite the place where a normal user would look for help. If it were at least in /usr/share/doc/gcj or /usr/share/doc/gcc-java ... > In that file is a section called "Java users need an additional download > to compile source to bytecode." that clearly describes what to do. > > Specifically, ... clearly?? The download script also referred to does not exist as you mentioned yourself. Von: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" > ... Best practice is *not* to bundle code. > > > 2) self-hosting. ... > Now *this* is an issue. ... What about doing the download in postinstall? No co-shipping, no self-hosting, no dangling dependency... ------ Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple