java status on the ports

Besides m68k hopelessly being behind we do have serious
problems on
alpha, arm and hppa.

 - on arm, the bytecode compiler (ecj) doesn't produce
correct code.
   there is currently a workaround to build the package on
arm using
   byte-compiled code built on another architecture. 
Aurelian has
   more information on that issue.  Afaik not a problem on
armel.

 - on alpha, we do have testsuite failures, leading to a
non-working
   interpreter (see http://bugs.debian.org/
464156). We can build
   gcj-4.3 and ecj, but nothing more (if ecj is built with
gcj-4.3).

 - on hppa, we do see bus errors trying to run the
interpreter, plus
   new testsuite failure (see http://bugs.debian.org/
464160).

Any help to fix these ports is appreciated, having a
replacment for
gcj on these archs is fine as well.

Test results on all other architectures look fine.

  Matthias


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