building OpenJDK on Ubuntu 7.10

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Thanks.  By trial and error, I determined that I only needed two packages
over the list for 7.04.
    libxtst-dev
    libxi-dev

That's enough to build OpenJDK images; I haven't tried running it yet :-)

-- Jon


David Herron wrote:
> Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
>> I'm setting up Ubuntu 7.10 to build JDK, and I'm looking at the info 
>> here:
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/build/raw-file/tip/README-builds.html
>>
>> There isn't a section for 7.10, but 7.04 comes pretty close. The only 
>> issue
>> is the xlibs-dev package.  Does anyone have a suggestion on how to 
>> fix this?
>>
>> -- Jon
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get install xlibs-dev
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Package xlibs-dev is not available, but is referred to by another 
>> package.
>> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
>> is only available from another source
>> E: Package xlibs-dev has no installation candidate
>>
>
> Jon,
>
> Compiles on 7.10 work pretty readily but you have to get the right X 
> libraries installed.  Compiles on 7.10 is even easier because the GCC 
> version on 7.10 doesn't complain about the string casts in Hotspot 
> which the GCC version on 8.04 complains about.
>
> That package existed to cause inclusion of a slew of X libraries & 
> headers.
> I thought there was still a package for this purpose, but I cannot 
> find it (on 8.04)
>
> On 8.04 I have these libraries installed:-
>
> libx11-dev
> libx11-xcb-dev
> libxau-dev
> libxcb1-dev
> libxcb-xlib0-dev
> libxdmcp-dev
> libxext-dev
>
> The ones with xcb in their name probably do not exist on 7.10
>
> - David Herron
>