T2K needed in Linux, also?

[Mark Wielaard]

Ted Neward <ted at ...> writes:
> Yep, had it pointing to the Import JDK (1.6) instead of the binary plug JDK
> (1.7). Thanks. There's a lot of JDKs needed to build the JDK. 

There is also a project to free the JDK from "itself" :) http://iced-tea.org/
(soon to be back at the old url icedtea.classpath.org hopefully) Then you don't
need any binary plugs nor a JDK installed when compiling on GNU/Linux. It will
use the gcj compiler to build and provides free software alternatives for the
plugs based on existing and newly written code. (And it contains build patches
like you pointed out against the bxy drops when appropriate to make things
bootstrap out of the box.) Discussion about it takes place on the GNU/Linux
distro-pkg-dev OpenJDK mailinglist:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/distro-pkg-dev

Cheers,

Mark