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 Sun, 4 Jan 2009 23:05:40 -0600
> File util/fonttool/src/org/gnu/grub/fonttool/PFF2Loader.java didn'tOops! You're right; my patch is irrelevant since PFF2Loader.java is
> make it into the repository.
>
> Jerone
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
> >