Building IcedTea without mozilla-plugin

[Francis Kung]

Hi Clemens,

> 1.) Will IcedTea also work on FC7 with latest updates? Is there a
> possibility to use an existing jdk5,6,7 installation instead of GCJ?

I haven't done a F7 build since, well, since F8 came out, but I think it 
should work.  We do not rely on anything specific to Fedora 8.

It is not possible to bootstrap against JDK5, as JDK >= 6 is a 
requirement by the OpenJDK itself.  We have also had reports that 
bootstrapping against JDK6/7 does not work (see 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2007-December/000740.html 
) but haven't had a chance to investigate much, so I don't know if there 
is an easy work-around.

Bootstrapping against gcj/ecj or a previous build of IcedTea is 
"guaranteed" to work.

> 2.) Is it possible to not build the mozilla dependent parts?

Not at the moment, though I don't think this would be difficult to 
implement.  Can you file a request at 
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/ so we don't forget? =)

> 3.) Does IcedTea use Sun's Graphics2D implementation? I don't care
> about ductus beeing there, but I would like to play with Sun's X11
> pipeline.

Yes, we use Sun code whenever it is available.  Most of the Sun graphics 
code is open; if I recall correctly, it's just missing pieces in 
anti-aliasing, path widening, and some high-level "glue" that we replace.

Cheers,
Francis