no gcj-jdk + no ecj + building openjdk

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 09:30 Wed 17 Nov     , Gary Benson wrote:
> Hi Ramakanth,
> 
> It looks like you're using IcedTea, so I'm copying in distro-pkg-dev
> which is the mailing list most IcedTea stuff is discussed on.
> 
> It also looks like you're using Fedora 8, which is very old.  I'm not
> saying you won't be able to do a build, but you'll likely run into
> problems that upgrading would solve.  So unless there you have a very
> compelling reason to stick on Fedora 8 I would suggest upgrading to
> the latest as your first step.
> 
> In answer to your question, ecj is the Java compiler from Eclipse,
> and it's the Java compiler used by jdk-gcj-compat.  You do need an
> existing JDK to build OpenJDK, and jdk-gcj-compat is probably the
> only free one available for Fedora 8.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gary
> 
> Ramakanth Varala wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > Iam trying to build openjdk for my fedora plat form .
> > i like to build openjdk without ecj ( i guess this is eclipse related
> > and eclipse IDE is  not needed )
> > 

ecj is a java compiler and you need a Java compiler to build IcedTea.
It does come from the Eclipse IDE but you don't need any of the IDE
installed to use it.  It's a command-line tool.

On Fedora 8, I believe you should have the option of either installing
java-1.5.0-gcj (recommended) or java-1.7.0-icedtea.  Using the latter
will require building with the --with-openjdk flag.

The simplest option, however, is probably just to upgrade to a newer
version of Fedora and perform 'yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk'.

> > Currently iam getting the error as below .
> > 
> > checking for distribution package version... none
> > checking build identification... Built on Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
> > (Wed Nov 17 12:03:35 IST 2010)
> > checking for a GCJ JDK home directory...
> > configure: error: "A GCJ JDK home directory could not be found."
> > 
> > 
> > can any body help me in this.
> > 
> > regards
> 
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