make sanity RFE

[Dalibor Topic]

Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> For the first time, I've been trying a full complete build of OpenJDK
> (full open+closed forest.)
>
> I'm building on Ubuntu, and the build has now failed a second time
> because of a missing command -- or more specifically, a command which
> is not installed by default.  The first command was msgfmt, the latest
> was bb. I do not know if there are more to come.
>
> It would be nice if make sanity had a mechanism for a quick existence
> check for commands that are likely to be required during the build, so
> that missing commands can be detected and reported early, and not
> one at a time at the end of a long build.
>
> -- Jon
sudo apt-get build-dep openjdk-6

should get you the necessary build dependencies installed.

cheers,
dalibor topic

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