Building OpenJDK with a more recent compiler

[Christian Thalinger]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 14:49 +0000, BOB.NETTLETON at ORACLE.COM wrote:
> Unfortunately, the "gcc" install (v3.4.6) on my machine is not the
> version required by the build instructions.  Since I don't have root
> access on my box, I worked on pulling down a more recent version of
> gcc (v4.3.1) and building it for my Linux machine.  In order to build
> the gcc tool, I needed updated versions of two GNU libraries (GMP,
> MPFR).  Since I can't update /usr/lib with these libraries, I needed
> to use the --prefix option to build gcc.  

Where did you install these libraries?  When I cross-compile OpenJDK, or
other stuff, I normally copy the libraries into the toolchain so the
compiler finds them by default.

- Christian