Building OpenJDK on Ubuntu

[Michael Koch]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:00:29PM +0200, Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> 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 :)

Hmm, should just work. However I will update that icedtea snapshot soon.


Cheers,
Michael