Bug#775450: clojure1.6: clojure 1.6 doesn't work with gij/gcj 4.9 instead of openjdk

Alex Vong alexvong1995 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 7 16:21:57 UTC 2016


On 07/02/2016, Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:
> Clojure 1.6 requires Java 6 or higher, I don't think adding the
> -noverify flag will fix all the compatibility issues with GCJ. We should
> adjust the package dependencies instead.
>
> Emmanuel Bourg
>
>

You are right, it is more of a workaround than an actual fix, in case
we need to use gcj with clojure for some reason. By the way, may I ask
why all clojure version has +dfsg suffice? My guess is that because
the upstream tarball contains pre-built jar. Should we document it in
`README.source'?



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