Dmitrijs, thanks for you answer :-) I've already built GCC from VCS with some non-trivial changes and bugs (#653255) (I'm building on a Solaris based system, with all linker, libs, fixincludes and GCC specs hell ;-)
I just wonder how to build GCJ from the same VCS (as it mentioned via source package page) 2012/6/9 Dmitrijs Ledkovs <x...@debian.org> > Hello Igor, > > On 08/06/12 22:18, Игорь Пашев wrote: > > I'd like to make custom build of GCJ. > > > > Here is a source package page: > > http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/gcj-4.7 > > > > but the VCS URL is for GCC. > > > > I've already built GCC and know all that package (gcc-4.7) well. > > And now I wonder how to use it to build GCJ. > > > > Should I put into root dir tarball of GCJ sources instead of GCC? > > The gcc/gcj/ada/etc packaging is rather interesting. The VCS URL should > point to an svn repository which, after updating debian/changelog and > debian/control can build a few source packages for bootstrapping the gcc > toolchain, including the gcj. > > If you just want to rebuild gcj, use apt-get source gcj-4.7 > If you want to contribute to gcj packaging, prepare to learn a lot of > funky Makefile magic of the whole gcc packaging (cc is 'compiler > collection' which includes the gcj compiler) > > There should be a README.source in the repository or similar explaining > a little bit how that packaging machinery works. > > It is not a trivial package by any means. > > -- > Regards, > Dmitrijs. > > >
