Re: Linux vs. Solaris

Not sure as icedtea took care of whatever downloads it required...  The 
only requirement I saw was the latest RH gcj with generics extension...  
When  I installed this under Fedora 7 - its just downloaded and built 
everything it needed.

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 21:43 -0500, Scot P. Floess wrote:
>   
>> Sorry, icedtea is a neat/easy way to build Open JDK...  Unfortunately
>> it requires gcj with the generics extension...  That's the part I was
>> unable to get working.  On an x86 box it builds very easily...
>>
>> I am hoping when Aurora reach Fedora 7 - it will just be simple to
>> do...  As Fedora 7 x86 works with icedtea - no issues...
>>     
>
> I think it needs a bit more than the gcj bits to build, but I haven't
> had time to sit down and try. I'm still trying to smack bugs out of 3.0
> so we can refocus on Fedora SPARC.
>
> ~spot
>
>
>   

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