building JDK for new platform

[Christian Thalinger]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 21:33 -0500, Robert Pangrazio wrote:
> Well I will look into that. I think that some more detail maybe
> necessary. I am thinking of building for RiscOS. There is a really
> nice project that allows you to compile programs written for linux, on
> a linux machine, to run on a RiscOS machine. I would like to try to
> use this to build Java. I was just wondering if it was a waste of
> time, as I would be expecting the Linux native Java version to be used
> in the build process.

Hi!

As we're now on a non-HotSpot architecture, I'd give it a try with
CACAO.  That's probably the best give-it-a-try for now.  Here are my
notes:

https://c1.complang.tuwien.ac.at/cacaowiki/OpenJDK

- twisti