Building OpenJDK on Ubuntu

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen]

Tom Marble skrev  den 08-06-2007 00:13:
> Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
>   
>> I did it last week on Ubuntu 7.04 too.  Took a while to get dependencies
>> right, but then it just took a while.
>>
>> Would it be possible to have a small apt-get repository at java.net to
>> make it easier for Ubuntu folks?
>>     
>
> I think it would be great to do that for Ubuntu (feisty and gutsy) and
> for Debian (etch, lenny, unstable).
>
> Separately I just started building IcedTea and my version of gcj
> on feisty is not sufficiently up to date.
>
>   
I just updated to gutsy (a meager 700 Mb download) so I was very hopeful.

Now I get to compiling java.awt.Component where it complains that it 
cannot find EventQueueItem...

Sigh, is there a platform where this builds - I'll be happy to use that :)

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  Thorbjørn