Bug#426141: classpath .95 (or .96) packaged for arm?

[Bob Black]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:14:38AM +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Bob Black wrote:
>> Will classpath .95 (or .96) be packaged for arm, or is it basically
>> armel only going forward?
>>
>>   
> It's packaged for arm, but it doesn't build:
>
> http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=classpath;ver=2%3A0.96.1-1;arch=arm;stamp=1200397843
>
> classpath depends on ecj, which depends on gcj, which in turn depends on 
> ecj to build, and since there is no gcj-4.2 build for arm, the circularity
> at the end of the chain is killing the builds.
>
> One way to unblock it would be to make ecj depend on jamvm alternatively on 
> arm, I guess.

Quick comment with regard to ecj depending on jamvm alternatively on 
arm.

Jamvm _may_ need to be updated to 1.5 based on something I saw
in the 1.5.0 release notes:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=550421
---- snip ----
- Added symbolic link from lib/rt.jar to Classpath's glibj.zip (fixes
  programs such as ecj which locates rt.jar via java.home).
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(Though I supposed a minor tweak to the 1.4.5 build could accomplish the
same thing.)

Bob