I think if it's not too much work it would be worth a try. The thing I see
is often times we think something is temporary and that ends up being a long
time. So having something that works with gcj would be better.

                          Thanks,
                                    Jerone

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:05:40 -0600
> "Jerone Young" <jerone@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > File util/fonttool/src/org/gnu/grub/fonttool/PFF2Loader.java didn't
> > make it into the repository.
> >
> >               Jerone
>
> Oops!  You're right; my patch is irrelevant since PFF2Loader.java is
> used only for the 'Viewer' tools, which Vesa decided not to include.
> I had not yet synced with GRUB SVN since Vesa checked in the font
> utilities, so I was working with my own feature branch.
>
> Never mind, then.  I can still do a temporary hack to support building
> the font converter tool with gcj.  I made this work in my shell script,
> and though I think doing it properly would require some autotools
> magic, I could add a quick-and-dirty target to a makefile to build
> using gcj.  Should I try to do this?
>
> Regards,
> Colin
>
>
> > On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Colin D Bennett <colin@gibibit.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:44:49 -0600
> > > "Jerone Young" <jerone@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I just paid attention to this (sorry). So everything seems fine.
> > > > But the dependency on  a proprietary java stack  to generate
> > > > fonts isn't good. Does it happen to work with gcc java ?
> > >
> > > The font tool does work with gcj (gcc's Java compiler).  I just had
> > > to make a trivial change (see attached) since gcj 4.3.2 does not yet
> > > implement the String(byte[], Charset) constructor.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Colin
> > >
>