On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:59:58AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > Richard stallman write last night: > > I agree to the use of the Eclipse front end to generate > Java byte codes. > > Note this does not mean importing Eclispe code into the gcc source or > release tree. We need to decide on a practical way to have people > grab a compatible version of ecj.
Treat it like GMP, I guess; it's an external dependency. Tell people where to get it; have configure test for its presence and refuse to build any dependencies if it isn't found.