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[Eric Richardson]

Andrew,

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Andrew John Hughes <
gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> clip
> > I used OpenJDK to bootstrap Icedtea6 - previously  I used Apple's JDK 6.
> >
> > ./configure --enable-zero
> > --with-ecj-jar=/opt/local/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar
> >
> --with-libgcj-jar=/Volumes/Leopard/developer/openjdk-bsd/bin/openjdk7-darwin-i386-20080820/jre/lib/rt.jar
> > --with-xalan2-jar=/opt/local/share/java/xalan.jar
> > --with-xalan2-serializer-jar=/opt/local/share/java/serializer.jar
> > --with-xerces2-jar=/opt/local/share/java/xercesImpl.jar --without-rhino
> > --disable-liveconnect
> >
> --with-gcj-home=/Users/mfranz/developer/openjdk-bsd/bin/openjdk7-darwin-i386-20080820/
> >
>
> --with-gcj-home is really designed for a Classpath JDK, so there's no
> guarantee that will always work with anything else.  --with-libgcj-jar
> has now been dropped; as can be seen in your example, it's derivable
> from --with-gcj-home.


I tried to use the other -home options and it complained, but with the gcj
it let me pass.


>
>
> > then make
> >
> > I was taking things from the OpenJDK 7 BSD port to get around missing
> make
> > files, but mixing OpenJDK 6 and OpenJDK 7 is probably not a good idea.
> >
>
> There's not much other option given that the BSD tree is 7 only,
> unless you want to use IcedTea7.


Well, I sort of wanted to work on a jdk 6 as that is sort of the current one
and who knows when 7 will go prime time. So I guess nobody is going to want
to back port that work to open jdk 6?

But do I need a jdk6 environment to work the BSD 7 work? If so perhaps I
could try IcePick to at least get the jdk tools. To my knowledge, the only
jdk on PowerPC Mac is the Apple 1.5 version.


>
> > Michael
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Eric Richardson <ekrichardson at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Michael,
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> Thanks for this MacPorts tip as this helped me past my eclipse-ecj
> hurdle.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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 read some more on the IceTea site and it looks like this should be
> >> possible.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I can post my configure script when I have access if you are still
> >>> interested.
> >>>
> >>> Michael
> >>
> >> Eric
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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