Building IcedTea7 Using BSD option On OS X

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/1/10 Michael Franz <mvfranz at gmail.com>:
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> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Christian Thalinger
> <christian.thalinger at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 18:51 -0500, Michael Franz wrote:
>> > Christian,
>> >
>> > I have had some success using Cacao.  The instructions you pointed me
>> > too seem out of date and seem be part of some other discussion (I feel
>> > like I am starting in the middle of something when I read them).
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>> Starting in the middle?  Well, the instructions for GNU Classpath are
>> missing.  Anything else?
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> Perhaps I don't understand what this process is suppose to accomplish.  I
> thought it was to allow building of icedtea/opendjk using classpath/cacao
> (instead of apple's jdk).  So, I have classpath installed and configured to
> use cacaovm, but during the icedtea build process it downloads cacao and
> tries to build it.  The build fails since there is linux specific code in:
> cacao/cacao-0.99.3/src/native/vm/openjdk/jvm.c
> jvm.c:3719:3: error: #error not implemented for this OS
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> I don't know why this did not happen when I built it manually.
>
> So, does this mean that it is trying to build cacao instead of the openjdk
> interpreter?
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> Michael
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I think you ran into exactly the issue that renaming the option
--enable-cacao was aiming at.  --enable-cacao (still --with-cacao in
IcedTea6 AFAIK) turns on the build of CACAO+OpenJDK class library as
opposed to HotSpot+OpenJDK class library.  The default build is set up
for a GNU Classpath JDK as a build option.  You should have a JDK-like
tree around CACAO+Classpath with jre/lib/rt.jar symlinked to
Classpath's glibj.zip and bin/java symlinked to cacao.  I think cacao
has an option to build such a structure in its configure options.
Then you point the build to it using --with-gcj-home.  For the time
being, you also need to point IcedTea7 to the class library explicitly
(--with-libgcj-jar=$JDK_HOME/jre/lib/rt.jar) but this will be
defaulted on the next IcedTea6->7 merge.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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