Build problems on Ubuntu 8.04

[Kelly O'Hair]

Starting small makes sense to me.

Not sure when I can get involved in it.

-kto

Keith McGuigan wrote:
> Kelly O'Hair wrote:
>> For Linux and Solaris I could see such a thing, even with all the
>> different Linux variations. But Windows... :^(
>> You could restrict it to Windows&CYGWIN and starting from a cygwin shell,
>> but I suspect that would not be satisfying all the Windows users.
>> There are Windows&MKS and possibly Windows&OtherUnixToolSet, and
>> would you need a configure.bat ??? :^(
> Well... we could start with the currently supported platforms 
> (cygwin/mks) and then if someone else wants/needs to build with a 
> different unix toolset, they'd have to create the configure script for 
> that.  We could start small.
>> The fact that the JDK Makefiles want a fullpath to each tool makes 
>> life difficult,
>> see 
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/jdk/file/tip/make/common/shared/Defs-utils.gmk 
>>
>> I understand why this was done, and maybe this also was part of the
>> sanity issue around tools (the path to the specific tool being exact
>> provided a minor sanity check?).
>> Maybe the configure script creates this file for the Makefile system?
> Yeah, that's kinda what I was thinking.
>> In the long run I do think we need a configure step, just not sure
>> when it could be done, or how far you want to take it.
> I think the hardest thing would be establishing the process.  Once we 
> have a configure script, we could slowly migrate things out of the 
> makefiles and into it for the things it makes sense to do.
> 
> -- 
> - Keith