Please, add local USE flag description for gtk USE flag in gcc. This is really FAQ on forums, btw.
Yeah, I'm a bit hazy on what it does myself. It's only used with USE="gcj", where it sets --enable-java-awt=gtk. The help for --enable-java-awt says: list of AWT peer implementations to be built. AWT stands for Abstract Windowing Toolkit. There appear to be options for xlib, gtk, qt, and X. Java team, as I have no experience whatsoever with gcj, could you suggest an appropriate description for the flag? And maybe we could change it to gcj-gtk or awt-gtk or something to prevent further confusion.
keeping USE=gtk makes sense. no need to create a local flag once metadata.xml has been fleshed out. if it's a FAQ on the forums, then presumably someone has been posting answers, so what are those ? :P
At http://readlist.com/lists/gentoo.org/gentoo-user/12/63184.html Ciaran wrote: It's for the Java gtk frontend. But I'm not sure what does this mean. My guess is that this is for AWT, that is mentioned in FAQ: http://gcc.gnu.org/java/faq.html#2_4 . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Window_Toolkit
A peer implementation refers to a set of native widgets (windows, menus, tables, etc.) usable withing Java applications via the java.awt API. Building a peer implementation means it can be used by setting the awt.toolkit property. Different peer implementations are a means to provide look and feels as well as portability of AWT. So a possible local description could be: "Build Java AWT gtk+ peers" Adding use flags for other peers might make sense as well.
should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report! Commit message: Add USE=gtk description by Ralph Sennhauser http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/gcc/metadata.xml?r1=1.13&r2=1.14
