I noticed that fastjar no longer appears to be built and installed on
darwin in gcc 4.2 branch or trunk. What is the status of this utility
for gcc? Looking at the RedHat gcc 4.1 packaging for clues, I was
surprised to find that they have a build requires for /usr/bin/fastjar
while they package it in their libgcj rpm. While I noticed that configure.in
lists fastjar as a host utility, it seems really odd to have a circular
dependency that requires the fastjar to pre-exist before it can be built.
I should also add that on darwin I see lines like when configure runs...
checking for user supplied fastjar...
/sw/src/fink.build/gcc42-4.1.9999-20061226/darwin_objdir/powerpc-apple-darwin8/ppc64/libjava/scripts/jar
that indicate the jar script is being used in place of fastjar. This is
odd since on Fedora Linux, the gcc 4.1.1 has a compiled binary for fastjar
instead of a simple script like that in libjava/scripts for jar. Thanks
in advance for any clarifications on this.
Jack
