Re: Fwd: IcedTea built on Gentoo

Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.java
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Petteri Räty wrote:
> Alistair Bush kirjoitti:
>> Hi am forwarding this to the Gentoo Java mailing this for anyone who is 
>> interested.  It was posted by Kyle Galloway from Redhat to 
>> [email protected]
>>
>> I would just like to say a big thank you to him for sharing this.
>>
>> Alistair (ali_bush)
>> Gentoo Java Developer.
>>
>> ps.  I suppose this means someones going to have to make a ebuild for it ;) .
> 
> When it works too. I think for example AWT/Swing is borked atm.
> 
>> *********************************************************************************
>>
>> I have now successfully built IcedTea using ecj on Gentoo.  Included in
>> this e-mail are instructions on how to do it for all those Gentoo users
>> out there who want to hack on IcedTea.
>>
>> This was done on Gentoo 2007.0 ~x86
>>
>> 1. Required Packages
>>
>> emerge -av xalan xalan-serializer xerces cups lesstif eclipse-ecj
>>
>> Some of those are probably already installed, but -av will tell you and
>> let you confirm whether you want to rebuild any of those.
>>
>> 2. Build a 1.5 compliant libgcj  (substitute the stuff in <> with
>> directories of your choice).
>>
> 
> This is probably easier:
> http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/wiki/GCJ_as_a_JDK

Yeah, if the point is to bootstrap everything without closed-source JDK,
and you need that to build the following too, then gcj-overlay could do
the job.

>> emerge -av xalan xalan-serializer xerces eclipse-ecj

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Vlastimil Babka (Caster)
Gentoo/Java
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