[fedora-java] Unnecessary package dependencies on libgcj; broken "gcj_support" macro in SPEC file

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 09:37 Mon 07 Mar     , Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote:
> Excerpts from Ward, David - 0663 - MITLL's message of Thu Mar 03 22:36:40 +0100 2011:
> > I know that people have asked in the past about removing gcj from Fedora
> > in favor of OpenJDK, and I'm aware that this has not happened for
> > reasons including architecture support on some platforms.  I don't know
> > when this was assessed last, but I'm leaving that question alone for now.
> 
> Actually we discussed this during our SIG meetings and recent changes
> to Java packaging guidelines[1] reflect this. We are discouraging
> building with GCJ support, but these guidelines are relatively new so
> it will take some time for packages to be rebuilt with respect to new
> guidelines. My guess is F-16, partially also F-15.
> 

There are some places where AOT is still needed e.g. ecj is much slower
when not using AOT.
-- 
Andrew :)

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