Sorry for not being clear in the original email. It is not as scary as it sounds.<br><br>All the pre-installed libraries by IT on our x86_64 linux workstations are 32-bit, so I just grab a few extra ones (sound, freetype, ...) as described on the build-howto page. After that and the makefile hacks, I was able to build 32-bit JDK.
<br><br>However, I was not able to build 64-bit JDK yet. I assume I will need to prepare a chroot environment with 64-bit libraries installed but I just don't have time to try it out yet.<br><br>So the bottom line is if a developer is constrained by the hybrid 32/64-bit environment like I am, it is possible to build 32-bit JDK with a few makefile hacks.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>-Ben<br>On Dec 5, 2007 6:27 PM, Tim Bell <<a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@sun.com">Tim.Bell@sun.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
[...]<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>You wrote:<br><br> "where 32-bit libraries are installed"<br><br></div>Er - how many libraries, and what were their names? Could you enumerate the 32/64 installation<br>process so that others could do these builds?
<br><br>Thanks - Tim<br></blockquote></div><br>