From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JV01a-0005g6-PU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:51:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1ACDCE0469; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:51:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slimak.dkm.cz (smtp.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACD2DE0469 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:51:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 64219 invoked by uid 0); 29 Feb 2008 07:51:20 -0000 Received: from rb5cu63.net.upc.cz (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (89.176.226.63) by smtp.dkm.cz with SMTP; 29 Feb 2008 07:51:20 -0000 Message-ID: <47C7B973.7040708@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:51:15 +0100 From: Vlastimil Babka User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071212) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Cross compiling for older platform versions References: <47C5EB11.3080301@sun.com> <47C61661.5050303@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <47C61661.5050303@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=4E61DE84; url=subkeys.pgp.net Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0D4E886202F08802DEB88C2F" X-Archives-Salt: 4dbc5fbe-5134-4eab-8c17-469e91fa0c83 X-Archives-Hash: 1dd094d4e039f87e901b7554d065125c This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0D4E886202F08802DEB88C2F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > David Herron kirjoitti: >> Hi, I talked with Petterati at FOSDEM last weekend and he explained to= =20 >> me (again) the issue y'all have. I just noticed that Joe Darcy has=20 >> posted a blog entry which seems to be really close to what you want. = >> Namely that even if you specify "-source 1.4" the platform library is = >> gonna change from release-release. Please take a look. >> >> http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/how_to_cross_compile_for >> >> >=20 > Yeah we talked a while ago on #gentoo-java or was it on this mailing=20 > list that our approach to backwards compatibility is not enough to be=20 > able to always run things with 1.4 but using -source is enough to get u= s=20 > through the following situation: Actually, this idea might be worth exploring when gen-1 is gone and some = packages in gen-2 still need 1.4 to compile (but can run with 1.5+), 1.4 = EOL is near... Maybe taking rt.jar from blackdown-jdk would not break=20 the license (didn't check), wouldn't need fetch restriction and because=20 it would be just used as compilation target, the security=20 vulnerabilities would be moot. Or maybe there will be only few packages, with existing or easy patches=20 to work with 1.5+ :) --=20 Vlastimil Babka (Caster) Gentoo/Java --------------enig0D4E886202F08802DEB88C2F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHx7l3tbrAj05h3oQRAgWUAKCnxso8phkxxjfKpm3CpIMSFkcIBACgm2ST xsy0So2NovtPkDZCm3TFmp4= =q7Bj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0D4E886202F08802DEB88C2F-- -- gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org mailing list