IcePick

[Andrew John Hughes]

Hi everyone,

Since the release of the OpenJDK sources, I've been kind of looking at things 
in a different way to most people (as is my want).  Knowing I couldn't build 
a Free JDK immediately (or even the sources Freely until recently), I tried 
just building what I thought would be most immediately useful -- the tools.  
Although we have some from Classpath, we don't always have them API-wise 
(e.g. executing com.sun.tools.javah.Main rather than a 'javah' binary), some 
of them aren't in the best position to be replacements at the moment (gjdoc 
unfortunately) and some are just plain missing (apt is the one I ran into in 
trying to build JikesRVM).

To cut a long story short, I've succeeded in cobbling together a small 
autoconf build system that will pluck through the OpenJDK sources and build 
them (just javac, javadoc, javah and apt so far, as a proof of concept -- but 
more should be easy enough to add now the main work's done).  It creates a 
tools.jar and scripts to run them (just like those in Classpath).  I was 
wondering if it would be worth me cleaning this up a little (adding niceties 
like a README, etc.) and hosting it with the rest of the IcedTea stuff.

Let me know what you think,
Cheers,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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