Ability to override compiler from environment

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 14:51 -0700, Dmitri Trembovetski wrote:
> Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> > Martin Buchholz skrev  den 24-06-2008 19:57:
> >> I am in favor of the fundamental change to a "configure + make" model,
> >> instead of configury stuff being done in the Makefiles as is the
> >> current practice.
> >>   
> > I agree, but I have understood that this work has been done in IcedTea 
> > already.  Is there any estimate when these two codebases may converge?
> 
>    Does IcedTea configure+make model work on platforms other than
>    linux? OpenJDK has to be built at least on Solaris and Windows.
> 
>    It's my understanding that Windows is the greatest pain in
>    terms of build environment.

It should work on (open)solaris, but I haven't tried myself. I doubt
anybody ever tried it on windows. In theory with cygwin you should be
able to get enough of the gnu toolchain to get it working. But icedtea
autotools support was also added to make bootstrapping through other
libre java implementations like gcj possible. The cygwin gcj port
however is, as far as I know, still a version behind the version we
really need (including 1.5 language support). That said, there is a
--with-openjdk configure flag that should in theory work as soon as you
have an pre-existing openjdk build already. But we would indeed need
testers for that platform. For some reason it isn't a very popular
development platform for Free Software hackers.

Cheers,

Mark