We're currently compiling a .jar file taken from eclipse-cdt (cdtparser.jar) into an .so during build. For this we need the jar, which we ship in a custom rpm (frysk-cdtparser). As sad as it is, this is bad, and we need to depend on eclipse-cdt, which has .sos. We need to transition to using this and make the build system do the right thing, as well as change the spec requirements.
Closed, in favor of http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1777 .