Building on Fedora 6

[Andrew Haley]

Phil Race writes:
 > 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?

None at all, except that the sanity check whined about it.

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

As above.

 > > +
 > >  # 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

Well, yes, but dk_generic_profile.sh sets those environment variables.
I'm presuming that you're not saying that there should be yet another
variable-setting script that should be run before running this script.
:-)

Andrew.

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