[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/classpath: drop package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Mon Mar 2 13:31:51 UTC 2020


On Mon,  2 Mar 2020 03:01:46 -0700
James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This package has been abandoned by upstream since 2016 and has not
> had a release since 2012. In addition the GNU Compiler for Java
> that classpath was written to be used with has been removed as of
> GCC 7.
> 
> It is no longer feasible to support classpath as it requires a java
> compiler capable of producing java 1.5 compatible bytecode which is
> not possible on hosts with a recent java compiler.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1 at gmail.com>

package/jamvm is using classpath, so you can't remove classpath just
like that, without taking into account the presence of jamvm.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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