Building on Fedora 6

[Phil Race]

This very probably should be sent to the build-dev list instead but ..


Andrew Haley wrote:
> openjdk-7-ea-src-b12-06_may_2007.zip built on Fedora Core 6 AMD64 with
> apparently no problems.  Changes to jdk_generic_profile.sh control
> were needed as below:
>
> --- j2se/make/jdk_generic_profile.sh    2007-05-06 10:03:44.000000000 +0100
> +++ control/jdk_generic_profile.sh      2007-05-09 11:06:18.000000000 +0100
> @@ -109,8 +109,12 @@
>  fi
>  export COMPUTERNAME
>  
> +unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>   

We generally consider any shell setting of   LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be evil
I don't mean JDK I mean much more generally than that
Having said that I haven't heard of it causing build problems before.
What is the problem it caused you?

+export LANG=C
I think Kelly mentioned some problems in some locales .. is that what 
this is for?

> +
>  # Boot jdk
> -bootjdk=jdk1.6.0
> +bootjdk=jdk1.6.0_01
> +ALT_CLOSED_JDK_IMPORT_PATH=/home/aph/openjdk/jdk1.7.0/
>   

these are intended to be changed/set via  envt variables  passed to make

-phil.
>  importjdk=jdk1.7.0
>  
>  # Uses 'uname -s', but only expect SunOS or Linux, assume Windows otherwise.
> @@ -155,7 +159,7 @@
>  elif [ "${osname}" = Linux ] ; then
>    
>    # System place where JDK installed images are stored?
> -  jdk_instances=/opt/java
> +  jdk_instances=/usr/java
>      
>    # Use compilers from /usr/bin
>    path4sdk=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
>
> Installed packages to satisfy the build requirements were:
>
>  jdk-1.6.0_01-fcs
>  cups-libs.x86_64 1:1.2.10-3.fc6
>  cups.x86_64 1:1.2.10-3.fc6
>  gnutls-devel.x86_64 1.4.1-2
>  cups-devel.i386 1:1.2.10-3.fc6
>  cups-devel.x86_64 1:1.2.10-3.fc6
>  libXp.i386 1.0.0-8
>  libXp-devel.i386 1.0.0-8
>  libXp-devel.x86_64 1.0.0-8
>
> Andrew.
>
>