[fedora-java] Fedora java packaging, icedtea vs gcj

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Sun Nov 25 19:20:54 UTC 2007


Andrew Overholt writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > * Sander Hoentjen <sander at hoentjen.eu> [2007-11-25 09:37]:
 > > 
 > > There is a program i would like to package (josm), only it doesn't
 > > compile with gcj, but it does with icedtea. Can this go into fedora?
 > 
 > Ideally things would build with gcj and be usable on all arches, but I
 > don't think Fedora has a policy of excluding IcedTea-only packages.
 > Does anyone know if we've come up with a policy?

We shouldn't need one.  Lat's first try to find out what the problem
actually is.

Andrew.

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