Experimental Build Repository at icedtea.classpath.org

[Andrew Haley]

David Herron writes:
 > 
 > Interesting...
 > 
 > I tried replicating this on Ubuntu 7.04 and ran into a couple issues.
 > 
 > First, the .jar files for Xerces and Xalan seem to be constructed on 
 > Ubuntu differently than the configure script assumes.  So I did this:
 > 
 >     root at dherron:/usr/share/java# ln -s libgcj-4.1.jar libgcj-4.1.2.jar
 >     root at dherron:/usr/share/java# ln -s xalan2.jar xalan-j2.jar
 >     root at dherron:/usr/share/java# ln -s xalan2.jar xalan-j2-serializer.jar
 >     root at dherron:/usr/share/java# ln -s xercesImpl.jar xerces-j2.jar
 > 
 > I looked and xalan2.jar has a package providing classes named 
 > Serializer* so I assume that's what you meant to use.
 > 
 > Next thing is when I ran "make" it downloaded the b12 source bundle.  
 > We're already on b13, b14 should occur "soon", etc.  I noticed there's 
 > an option to configure to specify an openjdk source tree, so will this 
 > icedtea thing work against an arbitrary openjdk source tree?

All that, of course, depends on what you do to the openjdk source
tree.  Realistically speaking, changes will probably be needed.

 > Finally, after letting it go ahead and download and unpack b12, the 
 > "make" got to this error, and died:
 > 
 >     mkdir -p bootstrap/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/ext
 >     /usr/bin/jar cf bootstrap/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar
 >     *'c' flag requires manifest or input files to be specified!*

Ouch.  Looks like the jar program you have is rather fussy.  These are
just dummy files.

Andrew.

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