Power PC Build

[Michael Franz]

Eric,

I have looked at compiling IcedTea for OS X prior to the BSD port being
public.  I was not successful.  I use Macports and had some of the necessary
dependencies added to it (eclipse-ecj).  I also only have Intel macs so I
can use the OpenJDK BSD port to bootstrap.

I don't have my notes handy, but I was using Java 6 (at the time Apple's
Java 6 was not complete) and had some issues with compling some classes.  I
tried to get Red Hat's modified gcc/gcj but it would not compile.  GCC 4.3
was not released yet, but I think it is now.  Gcc 4.3 should work as an
alternative - no guarentees.  Will Java 5 work?  I don't know.

I was recently looking at using the zero port in Icedtea, but never
completed the build process either.

I can post my configure script when I have access if you are still
interested.

Michael

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Eric Richardson <ekrichardson at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was looking into OpenJDK and saw the bsd-port and zero assembly project
> and thought It might be possible build jdk6 on PowerPC.  After looking at
> the bsd-port list I started working on setting up my environment. I have a
> G5 based Mac. Here is what I have done so far.
>
> Installed MacOSX 10.5
> Installed XCode 3.1.2
> Installed Fink 0.9.0
> Installed Mercurial
> Checked out icetea6 (hg clone http://...)
> ./autogen.sh
> ./configure
>
> gawk not found
> apt-get install gawk
>
> checking for a GCJ JDK home directory...
> configure: error: "A GCJ JDK home directory could not be found."
>
> ./configure --with-gcj-home=/Library/Java/Home --enable-zero=yes
>
> checking for eclipse-ecj.jar... no
> configure: error: "A ECJ jar was not found."
>
> Next error waiting if I fix the above.
> checking xalan2 jar... no
> configure: error: "A xalan2 jar was not found."
>
> Before I go further, I thought I'd ask if this is going to work at all
> using the JDK 5 that comes with MacOSX?
> Any suggestions on how to proceed?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
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