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+#! /bin/bash
+
+# COOKIE=$(mcookie); grep -v V_GREP_ME $0 > /dev/shm/runme-$COOKIE.sh ; sleep 1; exec bash /dev/shm/runme-$COOKIE.sh
+
+PKG=gcc
+VERSION=5.5.0
+BUILD=1
+# URL=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-${VERSION}/gcc-${VERSION}.tar.gz
+URL=ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/languages/gcc/releases/gcc-$VERSION/gcc-$VERSION.tar.xz
+SRC=$( echo $URL | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | rev )
+
+# gcc 3.4 didn't need this to build java (back in the good old days ...)
+ECJ_URL=ftp://sourceware.org/pub/java/ecj-latest.jar
+ECJ_JAR=$( echo $ECJ_URL | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | rev )
+
+PREFIX=/pkg/$PKG-$VERSION-$BUILD
+# PREFIX=/dev/shm/pkg/$PKG-$VERSION-$BUILD
+
+set -xe
+umask 022
+
+BUILD_TMPDIR=/dev/shm/$PKG-$VERSION-$BUILD.build.tmp
+test -d $BUILD_TMPDIR && rm -rf $BUILD_TMPDIR
+mkdir -p $BUILD_TMPDIR/home
+export TMPDIR=$BUILD_TMPDIR
+export HOME=$BUILD_TMPDIR/home
+
+exec </dev/null
+
+PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/package/bin:/usr/local/bin
+
+mkdir -p $PREFIX
+cat >$PREFIX/profile <<-EOF
+	PATH=$PREFIX/bin:\$PATH
+	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib64\${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:}\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+EOF
+. $PREFIX/profile
+
+BUILDDIR=$PREFIX/build
+
+mkdir -p $BUILDDIR
+cd $BUILDDIR
+
+test -e $SRC || wget $URL
+test -n 'XWIPE' && rm -rf ./gcc-$VERSION ./gcc-$VERSION-build
+test -d gcc-$VERSION || tar xf $SRC
+
+# Copy ecj.jar into the TLD of the source. Needed to build the java compiler.
+test -e $ECJ_JAR || wget $ECJ_URL
+test -e gcc-$VERSION/ecj.jar || cp $ECJ_JAR gcc-$VERSION/ecj.jar
+
+mkdir -p gcc-$VERSION-build
+
+cd gcc-$VERSION-build
+
+../gcc-$VERSION/configure \
+  --prefix=$PREFIX \
+  --enable-shared \
+  --enable-bootstrap \
+  --enable-threads=posix \
+  --enable-checking=release \
+  --enable-clocale=gnu \
+  --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,go,java,lto \
+  --disable-multilib \
+  --enable-objc-gc \
+  --with-system-zlib \
+  --enable-libstdcxx-dual-abi \
+  --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible \
+  --enable-__cxa_atexit \
+  --enable-libssp \
+  --enable-lto \
+  --enable-java-awt=gtk \
+  --disable-gtktest \
+  --verbose
+
+make -j $(nproc)
+# make -k check 2>&1 | tee check.log
+make install
+
+cd $PREFIX
+mkdir -vp lib64
+ln -sv ${PREFIX}/bin/cpp lib64/
+test -e bin/cc || ln -sv gcc bin/cc
+
+install -v -dm755 lib64/bfd-plugins
+ln -sfv ../../libexec/gcc/$(gcc -dumpmachine)/$VERSION/liblto_plugin.so lib64/bfd-plugins/
+
+# and dump these ...
+rm -v lib64/*-gdb.py
+
+# ++++++++++++++++++ Prepare OpenJDK build ++++++++++++++++++
+
+# create a JDK compatible directory structure below $PREFIX/lib/jvm (yes, 'lib')
+# emulation is required in order to compile OpenJDK using GNU java
+# Main author: Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> December 2011
+
+cd $PREFIX
+
+JVM=$PREFIX/lib/jvm
+BINDIR=$PREFIX/bin
+LIB_ARCH=amd64 # not kidding, grep amd64 in openjdk-boot/jdk/make/jdk_generic_profile.sh ;)
+
+GCJVER=$(gcj -dumpversion)
+# next yields a '16'
+GCJSOVER=$( readlink -f $(gcj -print-file-name=libgcj.so) | rev | cut -d. -f3 | rev )
+
+# remove the old set of symlinks if they should exist:
+rm -fr $JVM
+
+mkdir -p $JVM
+mkdir -p $JVM/bin
+mkdir -p $JVM/jre/bin
+mkdir -p $JVM/jre/lib/${LIB_ARCH}/client
+mkdir -p $JVM/jre/lib/${LIB_ARCH}/server
+mkdir -p $JVM/lib
+
+ln -sf $BINDIR/gjar $JVM/bin/jar
+ln -sf $BINDIR/grmic $JVM/bin/rmic
+ln -sf $BINDIR/gjavah $JVM/bin/javah
+ln -sf $BINDIR/jcf-dump $JVM/bin/javap
+ln -sf $BINDIR/gappletviewer $JVM/bin/appletviewer
+ln -sf $BINDIR/grmiregistry $JVM/bin/rmiregistry
+ln -sf $BINDIR/grmiregistry $JVM/jre/bin/rmiregistry
+ln -sf $BINDIR/gkeytool $JVM/bin/keytool
+ln -sf $BINDIR/gkeytool $JVM/jre/bin/keytool
+ln -sf $BINDIR/gij $JVM/bin/java
+ln -sf $BINDIR/ecj $JVM/bin/javac
+ln -sf $BINDIR/gnative2ascii $JVM/bin/native2ascii
+ln -sf $PREFIX/lib/gcj-${GCJVER}-$GCJSOVER/libjvm.so $JVM/jre/lib/${LIB_ARCH}/client/libjvm.so
+ln -sf $PREFIX/lib/gcj-${GCJVER}-$GCJSOVER/libjvm.so $JVM/jre/lib/${LIB_ARCH}/server/libjvm.so
+ln -sf $PREFIX/lib/gcj-${GCJVER}-$GCJSOVER/libjawt.so $JVM/jre/lib/${LIB_ARCH}/libjawt.so
+ln -sf $PREFIX/share/java/libgcj-${GCJVER}.jar $JVM/jre/lib/rt.jar
+ln -sf $PREFIX/share/java/libgcj-tools-${GCJVER}.jar $JVM/lib/tools.jar
+ln -sf $PREFIX/include/c++/${GCJVER}/gnu/java $JVM/include
+
+# Add a Eclipse Java Compiler wrapper which is required
+# for bootstrapping OpenJDK using GNU java:
+cat <<EOT > $PREFIX/bin/ecj
+#!/bin/sh
+
+CLASSPATH=$PREFIX/share/java/ecj.jar\${CLASSPATH:+:}\$CLASSPATH \
+  java org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.batch.Main "\$@"
+
+EOT
+chmod 755 $PREFIX/bin/ecj
+
+# exit 1 # inhibit 'closing'
+exit