no gcj-jdk + no ecj + building openjdk

[Mark Wielaard]

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:27 +0100, patrick at reini.net wrote:
> Quoting "Mark Wielaard" <mark at klomp.org>:
> 
> > On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:31 +0530, ramakanth varala wrote:
> >> My target is to get openjdk build for target board (ARM) .
> >>
> >> In the process i thought i would build openjdk first to my host
> >> machine i.e of fedora 8.
> >
> > Fedora 8 is very outdated (3 years old). Although IcedTea (7) has been
> > bootstrapped on it, it isn't maintained anymore. You might have better
> > luck if you update to a more modern version (Fedora 14 is the latest).
> 
> I just trying to get the build running on Fedora 14, until now without  
> success.
> At the moment I'm stuck getting the additional resources due a HTTPS  
> certificate error, that I'm trying to solve next...
> 
> See http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2010-November/003583.html

You might want to look at the icedtea build harness which does this
automagically beforehand (through wget instead of relying on ant). That
is if you like a configure/automake kind of setup. See
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6