[fedora-java] Re: aot-compile-rpm and bouncycastle

[Andrew Haley]

Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Orcan, please do this.
> 
> Sure Andrew. Just in rawhide or in stable branches too?
> 
> I have a question that has been puzzling me for a while: I disabled
> the building of AOT bits for bouncycastle because that produced an
> empty debuginfo package which I couldn't resolve otherwise (I tried
> things you once suggested: no go).

I am very surprised: I can't remember you telling me that at the time.
I'll have a look and tell you what I find.

> So, basically when I make a new java package I first try to build it
> with GCJ. If it does build, I build the AOT bits too and I make the
> package arch-specific. On the other hand, if the package does not
> build with gcj but builds with openjdk only, I make it require java >
> 1.5 (this excludes gcj) and I do not build the AOT bits. This time the
> package becomes noarch.
> 
> In the case of bouncycastle, I thought that the debuginfo package is
> empty because the package really needs java 1.6 and gcj doesn't
> support it.

I don't understand what would cause that.

> Am I doing the right thing? Or are AOT bits still important for java
> 1.6 packages? (which doesn't make sense to me)
> 
> Can you explain the dynamics laying behind so we can have more insight?

I'll tell you later.

Andrew.