[fedora-java] FC6 gcj notes

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Anthony Green wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 09:53 -0400, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
>>  That said, everything is stalled on the libgcj-bc.so work right 
>> now.  If that isn't done in time we'll be stuck with GCJ 4.1 stock in
>> FC6. 
> 
> Ouch.  Is libgcj-bc.so is supposed to be library that
> -findirect-dispatch binaries link against?  What is the advantage of
> introducing this?

libgcj-bc.so's SONAME (libgcj-bc.so.1) stays constant, meaning that BC libraries 
do not need to be relinked when libgcj.so's version changes.

Tom