Bug 608246

Summary:	app-text/pdftk-2.02 doesn't build without gcj
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Helmut Jarausch <jarausch>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	java
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Helmut Jarausch 2017-02-04 19:28:33 UTC

After switching to gcc-6.3.0 there is no gcj anymore.

What happens to packages which need gcj?

Is there a possibility to replace gcj with a different java sdk?

Thanks,
Helmut

Comment 1 Jan-Matthias Braun 2017-02-05 14:34:45 UTC

I think, this is a duplicate of #562568. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562568

Comment 2 Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev

2017-02-11 08:09:45 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 562568 ***

Comment 3 Yi Yang 2017-02-15 15:08:01 UTC

I believe gcc-6.3.0 still has support for building a functional gcj, as shown in https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/gcc-6.3/+build/11889777. The difference is just that we do not build gcj by default.

If pdftk requires gcj, shouldn't we first fix pdftk's ebuild by requiring gcj to be built in some way?

If that's the case, shouldn't we fix the easy part first so we can at least get something functional? Replacing toolchain without upstream support would be hard, but requiring us to build a toolchain (either gcc-5 or gcc-6 with gcj enabled) would be easy.

Comment 4 Yi Yang 2017-02-15 15:10:58 UTC

Since this issue is closed due to duplication, I'll redirect my further comments in the other issue.