Building OpenJDK on Ubuntu

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Thorbjørn,

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 20:00 +0200, Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> > 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...

Maybe you can post the actual error so people can see if they recognize
it? What is the output of gcj --version and gij --version?

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

I have build IcedTea out of the box on Fedora 7 (x86 and others have on
x86_64). In the past I have also build it on Debian stable (Etch), but
by cheating, I used GCC from svn with that. If you do that then you
would also need to follow some of the hints and tricks outlined at:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/GentooBuildInstructions
(In particular see the configure options).

Cheers,

Mark