Bug 159095

Summary:	jar does not recognize the "i" command line option
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ville Skyttä <scop>
Component:	java-1.4.2-gcj-compat	Assignee:	Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim>
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URL:	http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/solaris/jar.html
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Description Ville Skyttä 2005-05-29 10:24:51 UTC

jar from java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-devel-1.4.2.0-40jpp_24rh does not recognize the
"i" option, making it incompatible with for example Sun's jar tool.

  $ jar i foo.jar
  jar: invalid option -- i
  Try `jar --help' for more information.

More info about the "i" option and jar indexes:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/solaris/jar.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#JAR%20Index

I think might be a good idea to provide the "i" option in the jar tool included
in gcj-compat-devel even if it would be a no-op, with an appropriate warning
message.  That would provide command line compatibility; indexing of jars is an
optional optimization feature not really required by anything, and at best
rarely used.

Comment 1 Thomas Fitzsimmons 2005-05-29 17:17:27 UTC

OK, I'll submit a patch for this to fastjar upstream.

Comment 2 Thomas Fitzsimmons 2006-02-07 16:22:58 UTC

I submitted a patch for this upstream that creates a no-op -i option for
compatibility.  I'll close this bug when the fix lands in Rawhide.

Comment 3 Thomas Fitzsimmons 2006-02-08 05:53:02 UTC

Patch accepted and committed to gcc HEAD and 4.1 branches.

Comment 4 Thomas Fitzsimmons 2006-03-02 02:11:55 UTC

This landed in Rawhide with libgcj-4.1.0-1.  Closing.