On 08/20/2015 06:36 AM, Tom Tromey wrote: > Andrew> No, it isn't. It's still a necessity for initial bootstrapping of > Andrew> OpenJDK/IcedTea. > > Andrew Haley said the opposite here: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-08/msg00537.html
if you need bootstrapping OpenJDK 6 or OpenJDK 7, then having gcj available for the target platform is required. Starting with OpenJDK 8 you should be able to cross build OpenJDK 8 with an OpenJDK 8 available on the cross platform. It might be possible to cross build older OpenJDK versions, but this usually is painful. Matthias
