OpenJDK on Solaris Dev Express 1/2008?

[Christian Thalinger]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 08:43 -0700, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> If SXDE contains Sun Studio 12 (SS12), you may have some problems with compiling
> hotspot. I've integrated some hotspot changes to deal with SS12 issues
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot/hotspot/rev/a49545cab84a
> (hasn't been integrated into the master jdk7/jdk7 repositories yet).
> 
> The rest of the jdk may compile file with SS12, but lots of warnings about
> the use of -xarch options, harmless but annoying. I'm working on the rest
> of the SS12 Makefile changes for the jdk, to get rid of these warnings etc.
> 
> If you can get a Sun Studio 11 installed, would be better right now.
> 
> I used a previous version of SXDE to build OpenJDK a while back, but it
> had SS11 in it at that time, so it was a while ago.
> Looks like the latest SXDE includes Sun Studio Express compilers, which
> are effectively SS12+ I assume.

Is it possible to build OpenJDK for OpenSolaris with GCC?

- twisti