Re: [PATCH] Rename icedtea{6,7}.

2016-01-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > GCJ unfortunately only implements Java 1.5 (and that only works because > they use a prebuilt binary of the Eclipse compiler since 2007). Later > JDKs demand a compiler for Java 1.6+. > > It would be nice if GCJ were updated to support 1.6. The latest version > of GNU

Re: [PATCH] Rename icedtea{6,7}.

2016-01-06 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> The following patches rename the packages “icedtea6” and “icedtea7” to >> just “icedtea”, and the variables “icedtea6” and “icedtea7” to >> “icedtea-6” and “icedtea-7”. They also add a default “icedtea”, which >> is just an alias for “iced

Re: [PATCH] Rename icedtea{6,7}.

2016-01-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > The following patches rename the packages “icedtea6” and “icedtea7” to > just “icedtea”, and the variables “icedtea6” and “icedtea7” to > “icedtea-6” and “icedtea-7”. They also add a default “icedtea”, which > is just an alias for “icedtea-7”. Packages needing a JDK or

[PATCH] Rename icedtea{6,7}.

2015-12-30 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, the attached patches clean up the icedtea package definitions a little. The first patch may look a bit odd, but it is necessary to prevent the build system from checking (and unpacking) the drop tarballs. During the “unpack” phase we unpack all tarballs so that we have a chance to patch